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

Job 3:12 (KJV) |

Job 3:12

From Job 3, in the Book of Job (Old Testament).

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

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

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

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

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

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