Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

New American Standard Bible

“Why did the knees receive me,
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

Why did the knees receive me,
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?

A Conservative Version

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

American Standard Version

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Why did the knees
בּרך 
Berek 
Usage: 25

קדם 
Qadam 
Usage: 26

me or why the breasts
שׁד שׁד 
Shad 
Usage: 24

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Had Died

11
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
12 
“Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
13
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],


Cross References

Genesis 30:3

She said, “Here, take my maid Bilhah and go in to her; and [when the baby comes] she shall deliver it [while sitting] on my knees, so that by her I may also have children [to count as my own].”

Isaiah 66:12


For the Lord says this, “Behold, I extend peace to her (Jerusalem) like a river,
And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
And you will be nursed, you will be carried on her hip and [playfully] rocked on her knees.

Genesis 50:23

Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children; also the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born and raised on Joseph’s knees.

Ezekiel 16:4-5

And as for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing, nor were you rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

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