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Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

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Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 3:15
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Job 3:16
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Job 3:3
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Genesis 50:23
Joseph saw Ephraim’s children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph’s knees.

Genesis 30:3
She said, “Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.”

Isaiah 66:12
For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.

Ezekiel 16:4
As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut. You weren’t washed in water to cleanse you. You weren’t salted at all, nor wrapped in blankets at all.

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