New Revised Standard Version
Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?

Contemporary English Version
Why was I accepted and allowed to nurse at my mother's breast?

New American Bible
Why did knees receive me, or breasts nurse me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?

Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?

the knees.

Genesis 30:3 But she said: I have here my servant Bala: go in unto her, that she may bear upon my knees, and I may have children by her.

Genesis 50:23 And he saw the children of Ephraim to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the sons of Manasses, were born on Joseph's knees.

Isaiah 66:12 For thus saith the Lord: Behold I will bring upon her as it were a river of peace, and as an overflowing torrent the glory of the Gentiles, which you shall suck; you shall be carried at the breasts, and upon the knees they shall caress you.

Ezekiel 16:4,5 And when thou wast born, in the day of thy nativity thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed with water for thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled with clouts. . . .