Bible verse
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
Job 3:12 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 3.
8 May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
10 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
KJV
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
ASV
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
ERV
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
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