Job 3:12
Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?
13For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep
Cross References
Genesis 30:3But she said: “I have a handmaid Bilhah. Go in to her, so that she may give birth upon my knees, and I may have sons by her.”
Isaiah 66:12For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn a river of peace toward her, with an inundating torrent: the glory of the Gentiles, from which you will nurse. You will be carried at the breasts, and they will caress you upon the knees.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →