Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

“Dominion and awesome might belong to God; he establishes peace in his heights.

The house he builds is as fragile as a moth’s cocoon, like a hut that a watchman has made.

When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.

“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth shoots like a new plant.

Because he covered his face with fat, and made his hips bulge with fat,

In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.