Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall 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?
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?
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 Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire. 12 Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck? 13 For now I lay down and I shall rest; I slept: then there will be rest to me.
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
And she will say, Behold my maid Bilhah; go in to her, and she shall bring forth upon my knees, and I also shall be built from her.
Isaiah 66:12
For thus said Jehovah, Behold me extending peace to her as a river, and as a torrent flowing to the glory of the nations: and ye sucked, ye shall be lifted upon the side, and ye shall be caressed Upon the knees.
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph will see sons to Ephraim of the third generation; also the sons of Machir, son of Manasseh, were brought forth upon Joseph's knees.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
And thy nativity, in the day thou wert born thy navel was not cut, and thou wert not washed in water for my looking upon; and salting, thou welt not salted, and swathing, thou wert not swathed.