Job 3:12
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Berean Study Bible
Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

Young's Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?

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

Hebrew
Why
מַ֭דּוּעַ (mad·dū·a‘)
Interrogative
Strong's 4069: Why? for what reason?

were there knees
בִרְכָּ֑יִם (ḇir·kā·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 1290: The knee

to receive me,
קִדְּמ֣וּנִי (qid·də·mū·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 6923: To project, precede, to anticipate, hasten, meet

[and]
וּמַה־ (ū·ma·hō·šā-)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

breasts
שָּׁ֝דַ֗יִם (ḏa·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 7699: The breast of a, woman, animal

that
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I should be nursed?
אִינָֽק׃ (’î·nāq)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3243: To suck, to give milk

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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