Holy Scripture
Job 3:12
A church father on this verse
“MORAL INTERPRETATION. Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Be the thought far from us, that blessed Job, who was endued with such high spiritual knowledge, and who had such a witness of praise fr…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12And why did the knees support me? And why did I suck the breasts?
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In context
10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.
11For why died I not in the belly? And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
— Job 3:12 —
13Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who gloried in their swords;