Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest —
Cross References
Genesis 30:3And she said: 'Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may be builded up through her.'
Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the LORD: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and ye shall suck thereof: Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled 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 →