Job 3:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 30:3 : 3 She replied,“Here is my servant Bilhah! Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I can have a family through her.”
  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For this is what the LORD says:“Look, I am ready to extend to her prosperity that will flow like a river, the riches of nations will flow into her like a stream that floods its banks. You will nurse from her breast and be carried at her side; you will play on her knees.
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw the descendants of Ephraim to the third generation. He also saw the children of Makir the son of Manasseh; they were given special inheritance rights by Joseph.
  • Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 As for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water; you were certainly not rubbed down with salt, nor wrapped with blankets. 5 No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.

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  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

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    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

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  • Job 31:14-16
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    14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

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