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Job Chapter 3 verse 12 Holy Bible

ASV Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
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BBE Job 3:12

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
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DARBY Job 3:12

Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
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KJV Job 3:12

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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WBT Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
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WEB Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
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YLT Job 3:12

Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - Why did the knees prevent me? i.e. "Why did my mother take me on her knees and nurse me, instead of casting me on the ground, where I should have perished?" There seems to be an allusion to the practice of parents only bringing up a certain number of their children (see Rosenmuller, 'Scholia in Vit. Test.,' vol. 5. p. 101). Or why the breasts that I should suck? i.e. "Why were breasts offered to me, that I should suck them? How much better would it have been if I had been allowed to perish of inanition!"

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Prevent--i.e., "Why was I nursed with care instead of being allowed to fall to the ground and be killed?"