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Job 3:12

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job 3:12 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

    ASV

  • Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

    BBE

  • Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

    DBY

  • Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

    WEB

  • Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?

    YLT

  • Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

    ENG

  • Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

    WBT

  • Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

    BSB

In context

10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

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