Job 3:12

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

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

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

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

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

Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

Sammenlign

ÅB
Hvorfor tok knær imot meg, og hvorfor bryster som jeg kunne die?
OTB
Hvorfor var det knær til å ta imot meg,
og bryster som jeg kunne die?
B1930
Hvorfor tok knær imot mig, og hvorfor bryster som jeg kunde die?
BSB
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
KJV
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
WEB
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
ASV
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
DARBY
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
BLB
Why did the knees meet me, and why the breasts that I should suck?

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Kryssreferanser

  • Genesis 30:3

    And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.

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  • Isaiah 66:12

    For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

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  • Genesis 50:23

    And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

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  • Ezekiel 16:4–5

    And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

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