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15 While you caused me to grow in a secret place,
    none of my body was hidden from you.
    You made me deep in the earth.[a]
16 Your eyes watched me before I was born.
Before I had seen the light of day,
    you decided how many days I would live!
    You wrote it down in your book.
17 You have so many thoughts about me, God,
    that I cannot understand them all.

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Footnotes

  1. 139:15 ‘A secret place’ and ‘deep in the earth’ mean inside his mother before he was born.