Verse Comparison: Job 3:12
American Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Amplified® Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Contemporary English Version
Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?
Darby English Version
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Good News Bible
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?
King James Version
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
New American Standard Bible
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
New International Version
Why were there knees to receive me
and breasts that I might be nursed?
New King James Version
Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Revised Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?
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