Job 3:12
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
13For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep.
Cross References
Genesis 30:3But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.
Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, end upon the knees they shall caress you.
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 →