Other translations
American Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Darby Bible Translation
Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
God's Word
Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
International Standard Version
Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?
NET Bible
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
New American Standard Bible
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
New International Version
Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
New Living Translation
Why was I laid on my mother's lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
Webster's Bible Translation
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
The World English Bible
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
EasyEnglish Bible
Instead, my mother held me on her knees. I drank from her breasts.
Young‘s Literal Translation
Wherefore have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
New Life Version
Why did the knees receive me, or why the breasts, that I should have milk?
The Voice Bible
Why did my mother’s lap welcome me, and why did her breasts nourish me?
Living Bible
Why did the midwife let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
New Catholic Bible
Why were there knees to receive me or breasts for me to feed on?
Legacy Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Jubilee Bible 2000
Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?
Christian Standard Bible
Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
Amplified Bible © 1954
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
New Century Version
Why did my mother’s knees receive me, and my mother’s breasts feed me?
The Message
“Why didn’t I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last? Why were there arms to rock me, and breasts for me to drink from? I could be resting in peace right now, asleep forever, feeling no pain, In the company of kings and statesmen in their royal ruins, Or with princes resplendent in their gold and silver tombs. Why wasn’t I stillborn and buried with all the babies who never saw light, Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest? Prisoners sleep undisturbed, never again to wake up to the bark of the guards. The small and the great are equals in that place, and slaves are free from their masters.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Why did my mother’s knees receive me? Why were her breasts there to nurse me?
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
Good News Translation®
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?
Wycliffe Bible
Why was I taken on knees? why was I given suck with teats?
Contemporary English Version
Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Why were there knees to receive me or breasts for me to suck?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
Common English Bible © 2011
Why did knees receive me and breasts let me nurse?
Amplified Bible © 2015
“Why did the knees receive me? And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
English Standard Version Anglicised
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Why did knees receive me, or breasts nurse me?
New American Standard Bible
Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
The Expanded Bible
Why did my mother’s knees receive me, and ·my mother’s breasts feed me [L why were there breasts that I could suck]?
Tree of Life Version
Why did the knees welcome me, and breasts that I might nurse?
Revised Standard Version
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
New International Reader's Version
Why was I placed on her knees? Why did her breasts give me milk?
BRG Bible
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Complete Jewish Bible
Then I would be lying still and in peace, I would have slept and been at rest,
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse?
Names of God Bible
Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
Modern English Version
Why did her knees receive me? And why her breasts that I should nurse?
Easy-to-Read Version
Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did her breasts feed me?
International Children’s Bible
Why did my mother’s knees receive me? Why did my mother’s breasts feed me?
Lexham English Bible
Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
New International Version - UK
Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?