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15     My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(A)

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Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.(A)

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13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(A)

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But those who seek to destroy my life
    shall go down into the depths of the earth;(A)

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Your hands fashioned and made me,
    and now you turn and destroy me.[a](A)
Remember that you fashioned me like clay,
    and will you turn me to dust again?(B)
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese?(C)
11 You clothed me with skin and flesh
    and knit me together with bones and sinews.

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Footnotes

  1. 10.8 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb made me together all around, and you destroy me

(When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended[a] into the lower parts of the earth?[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 4.9 Other ancient authorities add first
  2. 4.9 Or parts, to the earth

Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill and all the firstborn of the livestock.(A)

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