World English Bible
Job 3:12
โWhy did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?โ
Verse in context โ Job 3
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because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
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with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
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