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Job 3:12

WEB

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

KJV

12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

BSB

12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

FBV

12Why was there a lap for me to lie on, or breasts for me to suck?


Extra References

Genesis 30:3

3She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”


Isaiah 66:12

12For the LORD says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.


Genesis 50:23

23Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.


Ezekiel 16:4-5

4As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all. 5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.