Job 3:12 — Compare Translations
27 translations compared side by side
English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
English ASV
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
English Amplified
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
English EASY 2024
Instead, my mother held me on her knees. I drank from her breasts.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did her breasts feed me?
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?
English God's Word - GW 1995
Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
English KJV 1611
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
English LSB
Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
Why did her knees receive me? And why her breasts that I should nurse?
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
Wherefore did the knees receive me? or why did I suck at the breasts?
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
Why was I placed on her knees? Why did her breasts give me milk?
English NIV
Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
English NKJ 1982
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
English NLT
Why did my mother let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Why did the midwife let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
English Tyndale 1537
Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?