5. You hem me in behind and before,and you lay your hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain.
7. Where can I go from your Spirit?Where can I flee from your presence?
8. If I go up to the heavens, you are there;if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9. If I rise on the wings of the dawn,if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10. even there your hand will guide me,your right hand will hold me fast.
11. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide meand the light become night around me,’
12. even the darkness will not be dark to you;the night will shine like the day,for darkness is as light to you.
13. For you created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;your works are wonderful,I know that full well.
15. My frame was not hidden from youwhen I was made in the secret place,when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my unformed body;all the days ordained for me were written in your bookbefore one of them came to be.