⁷ Where can I go from your spirit?
    Or where can I flee from your presence?^(A)
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
    if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.^(B)
9 If I take the wings of the morning
    and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand shall lead me,
    and your right hand shall hold me fast.^(C)
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,
    and night wraps itself around me,”^[a](D)
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is as bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light to you.^(E)

¹⁵ Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord,
    whose deeds are in the dark,
    and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”^(A)

² Though they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.^(A)