Job 3:12
And why did the knees support me? 1 And why did I suck the breasts? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11For why died I not in the belly? 1 And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? 1
13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, 1 I should have slept and been at rest, 1
Cross References
Genesis 30:3And Rachel said to Jacob, Behold my handmaid Bilhah, go in to her, and she shall bear upon my knees, and I also shall have children by her.
Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles: their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted 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 →