¹⁵ My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.

⁹ And they who for desolation seek my soul, Go in to the lower parts of the earth.

¹³ For Thou -- Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.

⁵ As thou knowest not what `is' the way of the spirit, How -- bones in the womb of the full one, So thou knowest not the work of God who maketh the whole.

⁸ Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back.

¹⁰ Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me?

¹¹ Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.

⁵ and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who `is' behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;

⁹ and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?