NET Bible
"Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?"
— Job 3:12, NET Bible
“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?”
“Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck? ”
“Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?”
“Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?”
“Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?”
“Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?”
Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.