| Job 3:12 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? |
| ASV: | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? |
| BBE: | Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk? |
| DBY: | Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? |
| ERV: | Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck? |
| JPS: | Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck? |
| WBS: | Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? |
| WEB: | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? |
| YLT: | Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck? |
| Job 3:12 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 3:11 "Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
Job 3:13 "For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 3:12 The knees - Why did the midwife or nurse receive and lay me upon her knees, and not suffer me to fall upon the bare ground, 'till death had taken me out of this miserable world, into which their cruel kindness hath betrayed me? Why did the breasts prevent me from perishing through hunger, or supply me that should have what to suck? Thus Job unthankfully despises these wonderful mercies of God towards poor helpless infants. |
| MHC: | 3:11-19 Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and providence upheld our frail lives, and his pity and patience spared our forfeited lives. Natural affection is put into parents' hearts by God. To desire to die that we may be with Christ, that we may be free from sin, is the effect and evidence of grace; but to desire to die, only that we may be delivered from the troubles of this life, savours of corruption. It is our wisdom and duty to make the best of that which is, be it living or dying; and so to live to the Lord, and die to the Lord, as in both to be his, Ro 14:8. Observe how Job describes the repose of the grave; There the wicked cease from troubling. When persecutors die, they can no longer persecute. There the weary are at rest: in the grave they rest from all their labours. And a rest from sin, temptation, conflict, sorrows, and labours, remains in the presence and enjoyment of God. There believers rest in Jesus, nay, as far as we trust in the Lord Jesus and obey him, we here find rest to our souls, though in the world we have tribulation. |
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