^{7 Ref} Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

^{8 Ref} If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

^{9 Ref} If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

^{10 Ref} Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

^{11 Ref} If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

^{12 Ref} Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

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

^{14 Ref} 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 Ref} My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

^{16 Ref} 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.