“Your hands shaped me and formed me.
Will You now turn and destroy me?
Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?(A)
10 Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

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“Your hands shaped(A) me and made me.
    Will you now turn and destroy me?(B)
Remember that you molded me like clay.(C)
    Will you now turn me to dust again?(D)
10 Did you not pour me out like milk
    and curdle me like cheese,

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Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

10 Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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But those who seek to destroy my life
will go into the depths of the earth.(A)

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Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;(A)
    they will go down to the depths of the earth.(B)

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But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

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Just as you don’t know the path of the wind,
or how bones develop in[a] the womb of a pregnant woman,
so you don’t know the work of God who makes everything.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how the life-breath comes to the bones in

As you do not know the path of the wind,(A)
    or how the body is formed[a] in a mother’s womb,(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit) / enters the body being formed

As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

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