Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
New American Standard Bible
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Holman Bible
and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
International Standard Version
Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?
American Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Amplified
“Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
Bible in Basic English
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Darby Translation
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Julia Smith Translation
Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck?
King James 2000
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should nurse?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
Modern King James verseion
Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?
NET Bible
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
New Heart English Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
The Emphasized Bible
For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?
Webster
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
World English Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? 13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept. Then I would have been at rest
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in to her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain sons by her.
Isaiah 66:12
For thus says LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And ye shall nurse [thereof]. Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's sons of the third generation. Also the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph's knees.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
And as for thy nativity, in the day thou were born thy navel was not cut, nor were thou washed in water to cleanse thee. Thou were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.