Job 3:12
For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, 1 have slept and been at rest, 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
13With melachim and yo'atzim of ha'aretz, 1 which build ruins for themselves; 1
Cross References
Genesis 30:3And she said, Hinei my amah (maidservant) Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my birkayim, that I may also build up through her.
Isaiah 66:12For thus saith Hashem: 1 Hineni, I will extend shalom to her like a river, 1 and the kavod of the Goyim like an overflowing stream; 1 then shall ye nurse, 1 ye shall be borne upon arms, 1 and be fondled upon her knees. 1
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 →