Job 3:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?

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  • Gen 30:3 : 3 She said, "Here is my maid Bilhah; go into her, and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her."
  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you nurse, you shall be carried on her sides, and be dandled on her knees.
  • Gen 50:23 : 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.
  • Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 And as for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out into the open field, to the loathing of your person, on the day you were born.

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    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

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  • Job 3:16
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    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:13
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    13For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

    10I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.

  • Job 3:3
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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

  • Song 8:1
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    1Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

  • Job 31:14-16
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    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

    15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Job 10:10
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    10Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

  • Job 6:10-13
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    13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • Job 13:14
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    14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

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    4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20-21
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    20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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  • Job 21:24
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    24His sides are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

  • Ps 71:6
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    6By you have I been upheld from birth; you are he who took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be continually of you.

  • Job 31:18
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  • Job 7:15
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    13For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

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  • Job 3:23-24
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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    15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.

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    22Then let my arm fall from my shoulder blade, and let my arm be broken at the bone.

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    4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

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    2Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished?

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    7And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.

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    3Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat!