Job 3:12
“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Job 3:12 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
American Standard Version (ASV)English
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Weshalb kamen Knie mir entgegen, und wozu Brüste, daß ich sog?
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
¿Por qué me previnieron las rodillas? ¿y para qué las tetas que mamase?
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Por que joelhos me receberam? E por que seios me amamentaram?
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
Por que seus joelhos me receberam? Por que me amamentariam os seios da minha mãe?
📖 Job 3:12 in Context
10Because 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;
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