“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?
12 You gave me life(F) and showed me kindness,(G)
    and in your providence(H) watched over(I) my spirit.

13 “But this is what you concealed in your heart,
    and I know that this was in your mind:(J)

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Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

11 Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.

12 Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

13 And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

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