Job 3:12
Why did her knees welcome me? 1 Why did her breasts receive me so that I should suck? 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
13For now I would have been lying down quietly. 1 I would have slept and been at rest 1
Cross References
Genesis 30:3She said, “See, there is my servant Bilhah. Sleep with her, so she might give birth to children on my knees, and I will have children by her.”
Isaiah 66:12This is what Yahweh says, 1 “I am about to spread prosperity over her like a river, 1 and the riches of the nations like an overflowing stream. 1 You will nurse at her side, be carried in her arms, and be dandled on 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 →