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Job 3

Job 3:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Why did the knees
berek (Hebrew #1290)
a knee
KJV usage: knee.
Pronounce: beh'-rek
Origin: from 1288
i prevent
qadam (Hebrew #6923)
to project (one self), i.e. precede; hence, to anticipate, hasten, meet (usually for help)
KJV usage: come (go, (flee)) before, + disappoint, meet, prevent.
Pronounce: kaw-dam'
Origin: a primitive root
me? or why the breasts
shad (Hebrew #7699)
probably from 7736 (in its original sense) contracted; the breast of a woman or animal (as bulging)
KJV usage: breast, pap, teat.
Pronounce: shad
Origin: or shod {shode}
that I should suck
yanaq (Hebrew #3243)
to suck; causatively, to give milk
KJV usage: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Pronounce: yaw-nak'
Origin: a primitive root
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Isa. 66:12• 12For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and ye shall suck, ye shall be carried upon the side, and be dandled upon the knees. (Isa. 66:12)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the knees.
Gen. 30:3• 3And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her. (Gen. 30:3)
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Gen. 50:23• 23And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees. (Gen. 50:23)
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Isa. 66:12• 12For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and ye shall suck, ye shall be carried upon the side, and be dandled upon the knees. (Isa. 66:12)
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Ezek. 16:4‑5• 4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou wast not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all.
 5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, from abhorrence of thy person, in the day that thou wast born. (Ezek. 16:4‑5)
• Of all creatures, man is the most helpless and dependent in infancy. It is to “hide pride” from him, and to call forth love in his behalf. To curse his infancy thus was to trample upon what is best in our fallen humanity, and shows a soul far from communion with God. Job had forgotten all the past; the sorrow of the present had eclipsed all else. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?