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

⁹ But those whose desire is my soul's destruction will go down to the lower parts of the earth.

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

⁵ As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

⁸ Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

⁹ O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

¹⁰ Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

¹¹ By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.

⁵ And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.

⁹ (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?