Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
Cross References
Genesis 30:3She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”
Isaiah 66:12For the LORD says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her 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 →