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Job 3:12
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Why did the knees receive me,and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
Why did my mother's knees receive me, and my mother's breasts feed me?
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
"Why did the knees receive me? And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
"Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?
Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did her breasts feed me?
Why was I reared at my mothers knee? Why did I suck the breasts?
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?
Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
Why did the knees go before me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Why set they me vpo yeir knees? Why gaue they me suck with their brestes?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?
and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Whi was Y takun on knees? whi was Y suclid with teetis?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should be nursed?
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
Why was I laid on my mother's lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
Why did the knees receive me, or why the breasts, that I should have milk?
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the knees: Genesis 30:3, Genesis 50:23, Isaiah 66:12, Ezekiel 16:4, Ezekiel 16:5
Reciprocal: Job 40:2 - he that reproveth
Cross-References
Then Yahweh God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."
And the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the sky and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.
And Yahweh God fashioned the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
And I will put enmityBetween you and the woman,And between your seed and her seed;He shall bruise you on the head,And you shall bruise him on the heel."
Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
Then Yahweh God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
If I have covered my transgressions like Adam,By hiding my iniquity in my bosom,
The folly of man subverts his way,But his heart rages against Yahweh.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Why did the knees prevent me?.... Not of the mother, as Jarchi, but of the midwife, who received him into her lap, and nourished and cherished him, washed him with water, salted, and swaddled him; or it may be of his father, with whom it was usual to take the child on his knees as soon as born, see Genesis 50:23; which custom obtained among the Greeks and Romans o; hence the goddess Levana p had her name, causing the father in this way to own his child; his concern is, that he did not fall to the ground as he came out of his mother's womb, and with that fall die; and that he was prevented from falling by the officious knees of the midwife; that he was not suffered to fall, and be left there, without having any of the usual things done to him for the comfort and preservation of life, which was sometimes the case, Ezekiel 16:4;
or why the breasts that I should suck? since a miscarrying womb was not given, and death did not seize him immediately upon birth, but all proper care was taken to prevent it, he asks, why was there milk in the breasts of his mother or nurse to suckle and nourish him? why were there not dry breasts, such as would afford no milk, that so he might have been starved? thus he wishes the kindest things in nature and Providence had been withheld from him.
o Homer. Iliad. 9. Vid. Barthii Animadv. ad Claudian. in Nupt. Honor. ver. 341. p Kipping. Antiqu. Roman. l. 1. c. 1. sect. 10.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Why did the knees prevent me? - That is, the lap of the nurse or of the mother, probably the latter. The sense is, that if he had not been delicately and tenderly nursed, he would have died at once. He came helpless into the world, and but for the attention of others he would have soon died. Jahn supposes (Archae section 161) that it was a common custom for the father, on the birth of a son, to clasp the new-born child to his bosom, while music was heard to sound, and by this ceremony to declare it as his own. That there was some such recognition of a child or expression of paternal regard, is apparent from Genesis 50:23. Probably, however, the whole sense of the passage is expressed by the tender care which is necessarily shown to the new-born infant to preserve it alive. The word rendered “prevent” here קדם qâdam, means properly to anticipate, to go before, as the English word “prevent” formerly did; and hence, it means to go to meet anyone in order to aid him in any way. There is much beauty in the word here. It refers to the provision which God has made in the tender affection of the parent to “anticipate” the needs of the child. The arrangement has been made beforehand. God has taken care when the feeble and helpless infant is born, that tender affection has been already created and prepared to meet it. It has not to be created then; it is not to be excited by the suffering of the child; it is already in existence as an active, powerful, and self-denying principle, to “anticipate” the needs of the newborn babe, and to save it from death.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:12. Why did the knees prevent me? — Why was I dandled on the knees? Why was I nourished by the breasts? In either of the above cases I had neither been received into a mother's lap, nor hung upon a mother's breasts.
