Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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- Gen 30:3 : 3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
- Isa 66:12 : 12 For thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
- Gen 50:23 : 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.
- Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
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18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
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11 What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?
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13 Isn't it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?
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20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
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6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
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18 (no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);
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12 Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
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21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
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4 My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.
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2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
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3 Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!