Job 3:12
Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
In Context
11Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
13For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,
Cross References
Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maide Bilhah, goe in to her, and she shall beare vpon my knees, and I shall haue children also by her.
Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will extend peace ouer her like a flood, and the glorie of the Gentiles like a flowing streame: then shall ye sucke, ye shall be borne vpon her sides, and be ioyfull vpon 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 →