Job 3:12 KJV
Job · chapter 3 · verse 12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?Job 3:12 · King James Version
Job 3:12 in context
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- preventqâdamto projectH6923 →
- breastsshadthe breast of a woman or animalH7699 →
- kneesbereka kneeH1290 →
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Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-19