Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
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?
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?
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 didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
I would be asleep.
Then I would be at rest
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me
Isaiah 66:12
For this is what the Lord says:
and the wealth
you will nurse and be carried on her hip
and bounced on her lap.
Genesis 50:23
He saw Ephraim’s sons to the third generation;
Ezekiel 16:4-5
As for your birth, your umbilical cord wasn’t cut on the day you were born,