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Job 3:12

โ€œWhy did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?โ€

Verse in context โ€” Job 3

10

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11

Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14

With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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