Job 3:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Why did the knees prevent me? - Why was I dandled on the knees? Why was I nourished by the breasts? In either of the above cases I had neither been received into a mother's lap, nor hung upon a mother's breasts.

Job 3:12

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