Job 3:12

Job 3:12 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

12Why were there knees to receive me

and breasts that I might be nursed?

12“Why were the knees there in front of me,

And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

12“Why did the knees receive me?

And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

12Why were there knees to receive me,

and breasts that I should be nursed?

12Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

12Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

12Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

12Why was I placed on her knees?

Why did her breasts give me milk?

12Instead, my mother held me on her knees.

I drank from her breasts.

12Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?