¹³ “If I have ^(A)despised the cause of my male or female servant
When they complained against me,
¹⁴ What then shall I do when ^(B)God rises up?
When He punishes, how shall I answer Him?
^15 (C)Did not He who made me in the womb make them?
Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?

^2 (A)Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ^[a]ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence ^(B)the enemy and the avenger.

³ When I ^(C)consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
^4 (D)What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You ^(E)visit^[b] him?
⁵ For You have made him a little lower than ^[c]the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

^6 (F)You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
^(G)You have put all things under his feet,
⁷ All sheep and oxen—
Even the beasts of the field,
⁸ The birds of the air,
And the fish of the sea
That pass through the paths of the seas.

^9 (A)But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
¹⁰ I was cast upon You from birth.
From My mother’s womb
^(B)You have been My God.

³ Behold, ^(A)children are a heritage from the Lord,
^(B)The fruit of the womb is a ^(C)reward.
⁴ Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.
^5 (D)Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
^(E)They shall not be ashamed,
But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

¹³ For You formed my inward parts;
You ^[a]covered me in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise You, for ^[b]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
^15 (A)My ^[c]frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁵ “Can^(A) a woman forget her nursing child,
^[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
^(B)Yet I will not forget you.
¹⁶ See, ^(C)I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;
Your walls are continually before Me.