Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?
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?
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 while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born? 12 Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me? 13 "If I had died, I would be lying down by now, undisturbed, asleep, and at rest,
Names
Cross References
Genesis 30:3
Rachel responded, "Here's my handmaid Bilhah. Go have sex with her. She can bear children on my knees so I can have children through her."
Isaiah 66:12
This is what the LORD says: "See, I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream; and you will nurse, and you will be carried on her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
Genesis 50:23
Joseph saw the third generation of Ephraim's children, as well as the children who had been born to Manasseh's son Machir, whom he adopted as his own.
Ezekiel 16:4-5
Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.