A moment in scripture
Job 3:12
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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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The surrounding passage
- Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Job 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.