Job 3:12
Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11Why do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept—then there is rest to me,
Cross References
Genesis 30:3And she says, “Behold, my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she bears on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her”;
Isaiah 66:12For thus said YHWH: “Behold, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, || And the glory of nations as an overflowing stream, || And you have sucked, || You are carried on the side, || And you are dandled on 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 →