Job 3:12 · KJV
“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?”
— Job 3:12
Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3 — Context
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Cross References
Isaiah 66:12
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon {her} sides, and be dandled upon {her} knees.
Genesis 30:3
And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. {have...: Heb. be built by her}
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third {generation}: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees. {brought...: Heb. born}
Ezekiel 16:4-5
And {as for} thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple {thee}; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. {to supple...: or, when I looked upon thee}