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Job 3:12

โ€œWhy did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?โ€

Verse in context โ€” Job 3

10

because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

11

Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

12

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

13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

14

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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