¹³ My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

¹⁴ I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.

¹⁵ My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.

¹⁷ How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!

¹⁸ If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.

⁴ Be glad in the Lord at all times: again I say, Be glad.

⁹ But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

¹⁰ I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

¹¹ Be not far from me, for trouble is near; there is no one to give help.

¹² So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

⁴ One prayer have I made to the Lord, and this is my heart's desire; that I may have a place in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, looking on his glory, and getting wisdom in his Temple.

⁶ You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

³ For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

⁴ And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

⁵ Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

⁴⁰ And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

²⁴ This is the day which the Lord has made; we will be full of joy and delight in it.