Job 3:12

Job 3:12 in other translations

Job 3:12 in context

1. 10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
   nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
2. 11“Why didn’t I die from the womb?
   Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
3. 12Why did the knees receive me?
   Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
4. 13For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
   I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
5. 14with kings and counselors of the earth,
   who built up waste places for themselves;