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Job 3:12

12 “Why did the knees receive me,

And why the breasts, that I should suck?

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Job 3:12 — The New International Version (NIV)

12 Why were there knees to receive me

and breasts that I might be nursed?

Job 3:12 — English Standard Version (ESV)

12 Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

Job 3:12 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

12 Why did the knees prevent me?

Or why the breasts that I should suck?

Job 3:12 — New Living Translation (NLT)

12 Why was I laid on my mother’s lap?

Why did she nurse me at her breasts?

Job 3:12 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

12 Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

Job 3:12 — New Century Version (NCV)

12 Why did my mother’s knees receive me,

and my mother’s breasts feed me?

Job 3:12 — American Standard Version (ASV)

12 Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Job 3:12 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

Job 3:12 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

12 Why did knees welcome me? 

Why did breasts let me nurse? 

Job 3:12 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

12 Why did the knees receive me,

and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

Job 3:12 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

12 Why were there knees to receive me,

or breasts for me to suck?

Job 3:12 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

12 Why did the knees receive me

and the breasts, that I could suck?

Job 3:12 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

12 Why was I placed on her knees?

Why did her breasts give me milk?


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