Job 3:12

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

Cross-reference

Job 40:2 Parallel

Job 40:2 is God's rebuke to Job for contending with the Almighty, directly addressing the kind of complaint in Job 3:12.

Ezekiel 16:5 continues the neglect: no pity, cast out. Opposes Job's lament that he was received at birth.

Isaiah 66:12 promises comfort with nursing and dandling on knees, echoing Job's 'knees' and 'breasts' in a positive future hope.

Ezekiel 16:4 describes Jerusalem's neglected birth — no washing or swaddling — contrasting with Job's reception by knees and breasts.