15. My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
16. Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed--And not one among them.
17. And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
18. I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.
19. Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
20. Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity [are] Thine enemies.
21. Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
22. [With] perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
23. Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,
24. And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!