Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
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?
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?
Amplified
“Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
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 death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath? 12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.
Isaiah 66:12
For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.