Job 3:12
Why was there a lap for me to lie on, or breasts for me to suck?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11Why wasn't I stillborn? Why didn't I die at birth?
13For now I would be lying down in peace. I would be sleeping and at rest,
Cross References
Genesis 30:3“Here's my personal maid Bilhah,” Rachel replied. “Sleep with her and she can have children for me so I'll have a family too.”
Isaiah 66:12This is what the Lord says: Watch! I'm going to give her peace and prosperity like a flowing river, the wealth of nations like an overflowing stream. You will nurse and be carried on her hip and played with on her 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 →