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15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

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Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb,[a] so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

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Footnotes

  1. 11:5 Some manuscripts read Just as you cannot understand how breath comes to a tiny baby in its mother’s womb.

13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

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“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,
    yet now you completely destroy me.
Remember that you made me from dust—
    will you turn me back to dust so soon?
10 You guided my conception
    and formed me in the womb.[a]
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
    and you knit my bones and sinews together.

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  1. 10:10 Hebrew You poured me out like milk / and curdled me like cheese.

But those plotting to destroy me will come to ruin.
    They will go down into the depths of the earth.

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Notice that it says “he ascended.” This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly world.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Some manuscripts read to the lower parts of the earth.

All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die.

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