Ayub 3:12

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Mengapa pangkuan menerima aku; mengapa ada buah dada, sehingga aku dapat menyusu?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mengapa pangkuan menerima aku; mengapa ada buah dada, sehingga aku dapat menyusu?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Mengapa adalah tersedia pangku akan menyambut aku dan susu akan menyusui aku?

Contextual Overview

¹¹ [Alas] why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of [my mothers] wombe? ¹² Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes? ¹³ Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest, ¹⁴ Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places, ¹⁵ Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer: ¹⁶ Or [why] was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, [either] as young children which neuer sawe the light? ¹⁷ There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest: ¹⁸ There the prisoners rest together, they heare no more the voyce of the oppressour: ¹⁹ There are small and great, and the seruaunt [is] free from his maister.

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

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God sayde: It is not good yt the man should be alone, I wyll make hym an helpe lyke vnto hym.

Genesis 2:20
And the man gaue names to all cattell, and foule of the ayre, & euery beast of the fielde: but for man founde he not an helpe lyke vnto hym.

Genesis 2:22
And the ribbe which the lord god had taken from man, made he a woman, & brought her vnto the man.

Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.

Genesis 3:15
I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.

Genesis 3:20
And Adam called his wyfes name Heua, because she was the mother of all lyuyng.

Genesis 3:21
Unto Adam also and to his wyfe dyd the Lorde God make garments of skynnes, and he put them on.

Genesis 3:24
And so he droue out man, and at the east side of the garde of Eden he set Cherubins, and a fierie two edged sworde, to kepe the way of the tree of lyfe.

Job 31:33
Haue I kept secrete my sinne, and hyd myne iniquitie, as Adam dyd?

Proverbs 19:3
The foolishnesse of man paruerteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the Lorde.

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.