15 My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made(A) in the secret place,
    when I was woven together(B) in the depths of the earth.(C)

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As you do not know the path of the wind,(A)
    or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed

13 For you created my inmost being;(A)
    you knit me together(B) in my mother’s womb.(C)

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“Your hands shaped(A) me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?(B)
Remember that you molded me like clay.(C)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(D)
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,
11 clothe me with skin and flesh
    and knit me together(E) with bones and sinews?

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Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;(A)
    they will go down to the depths of the earth.(B)

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(What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions[a]?

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:9 Or the depths of the earth

Every firstborn(A) son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill,(B) and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

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