Job 3:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

New Living Translation
Why was I laid on my mother’s lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?

English Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

Berean Study Bible
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

New American Standard Bible
“Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

NASB 1995
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?

NASB 1977
“Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?

Amplified Bible
“Why did the knees receive me? And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

Christian Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?

Contemporary English Version
Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?

Good News Translation
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?

International Standard Version
Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?

NET Bible
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

New King James Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

King James 2000 Bible
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should nurse?

New Heart English Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

World English Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

American King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

American Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

A Faithful Version
Why did the knees receive me; or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Darby Bible Translation
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

English Revised Version
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Why set they me vpo yeir knees? Why gaue they me suck with their brestes?
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?

Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what are breasts, that I suck?

Smith's Literal Translation
Why did the knees anticipate me? and wherefore the breasts that I shall suck?

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?

Catholic Public Domain Version
Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Why did the knees rear me and why did I suck from the breasts?

Lamsa Bible
Why was I reared at my mother's knee? Why did I suck the breasts?

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?
















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