Job 3:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:3 : 3 And she said, Behold my maide Bilhah, goe in to her, and she shal beare vpon my knees, and I shal haue children also by her.
  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For thus saith the Lord, Beholde, I will extend peace ouer her like a flood, and the glorie of the Gentiles like a flowing streame: then shall ye sucke, ye shall be borne vpon her sides, and be ioyfull vpon her knees.
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 And Ioseph saw Ephraims children, euen vnto the third generation: also the sonnes of Machir the sonne of Manasseh were brought vp on Iosephs knees.
  • Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 And in thy natiuitie whe thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut: thou wast not washed in water to soften thee: thou wast not salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes. 5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in ye day that thou wast borne.

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    18Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

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  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.

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    16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

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  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.

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    3Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

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    1Oh that thou werest as my brother that sucked the brestes of my mother: I would finde thee without, I would kisse thee, then they should not despise thee.

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    14What then shal I do when God standeth vp? & when he shal visit me, what shal I answere?

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    10Then should I yet haue comfort, (though I burne with sorowe, let him not spare) because I haue not denyed the wordes of the Holy one.

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