Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I 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?
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?
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! 12 Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck? 13 For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
And she saith, 'Lo, my handmaid Bilhah, go in unto her, and she doth bear on my knees, and I am built up, even I, from her;'
Isaiah 66:12
For thus said Jehovah: 'Lo, I am stretching out to her peace as a river, And as an overflowing stream the honour of nations, And ye have sucked, on the side ye are carried, And on the knees ye are dandled.
Genesis 50:23
and Joseph looketh on Ephraim's sons of the third generation; sons also of Machir, son of Manasseh, have been born on the knees of Joseph.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.