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12 Why was I accepted[a]
    and allowed to nurse
    at my mother's breast?
13 Now I would be at peace
    in the silent world below
14 with kings and their advisors
    whose palaces lie in ruins,

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  1. 3.12 Why was I accepted: The Hebrew text has “Why were there knees to receive me,” which may refer either to Job's mother or to his father, who would have placed Job on his knees to show that he had accepted him as his child.

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