Job 3:12

American Standard Version

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

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Job 3:12 in other translations

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

Job 3:12 · World English Bible

Job 3:12 in context

  1. 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
  2. 11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
  3. 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
  4. 13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
  5. 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;