7. Where will I go from your Spirit? And where will I flee from your face?
8. If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near.
9. If I assume my feathers in early morning, and dwell in the utmost parts of the sea,
10. even there, your hand will lead me forth, and your right hand will hold me.
11. And I said: Perhaps darkness will overwhelm me, and the night will be my illumination, to my delight.
12. But darkness will not be impenetrable to you, and night will illuminate like the day: for just as its darkness is, so also is its light.
13. For you have possessed my temperament. You have supported me from the womb of my mother.
14. I will confess to you, for you have been magnified terribly. Your works are miraculous, as my soul knows exceedingly well.
15. My bone, which you have made in secret, has not been hidden from you, and my substance is in accord with the lower parts of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my imperfection, and all this shall be written in your book. Days will be formed, and no one shall be in them.
17. But to me, O God, your friends have been greatly honored. Their first ruler has been exceedingly strengthened.
18. I will number them, and they will be more numerous than the sand. I rose up, and I am still with you.
19. O God, if only you would cut down sinners. You men of blood: depart from me.
20. For you say in thought: They will accept your cities in vain.