Job 3:12

Old Testament Wisdom/Poetry ASV (1901)

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Job 3:12 — American Standard Version

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Context — Job 3

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.

9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother`s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

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