<p class="poetry">Did not the one who made me in the womb make them?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Did not the same one form us in the womb?p>

<p class="poetry">he makes the Bear,<n id="1" /> Orion,<n id="2" /> and the Pleiades,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the constellations of the southern sky;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;Your hands have shaped<n id="1" /> me and made me,p> <p class="poetry">but<n id="2" /> now you destroy me completely.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Dominion<n id="1" /> and awesome might<n id="2" /> belong to<n id="3" /> God;p> <p class="poetry">he establishes peace in his heights.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The house he builds is as fragile as a moth&#8217;s cocoon,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">like a hut<n id="2" /> that a watchman has made.p>

<p class="poetry">When he made<n id="1" /> the force of the windp> <p class="poetry">and measured<n id="2" /> the waters with a gauge.p>

<p class="poetry">When he imposed a limit<n id="1" /> for the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and a path for the thunderstorm,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The Spirit of God has made me,p> <p class="poetry">and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Is<n id="1" /> a mortal man<n id="2" /> righteous<n id="3" /> before<n id="4" /> God?p> <p class="poetry">Or a man pure<n id="5" /> before his Creator?<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">He does<n id="1" /> great and unsearchable<n id="2" /> things,p> <p class="poetry">marvelous things without<n id="3" /> number;<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">He frustrates<n id="1" /> the plans<n id="2" /> of the crafty<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">so that<n id="4" /> their hands cannot accomplishp> <p class="poetry">what they had planned!<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">Remember that you have made me as with<n id="1" /> the clay;p> <p class="poetry">will<n id="2" /> you return me to dust?p>

<p class="poetry">You gave me<n id="1" /> life and favor,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your intervention<n id="3" /> watched over my spirit.p>

<p class="poetry">at the scent<n id="1" /> of water it will flourish<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and put forth<n id="3" /> shoots like a new plant.p>

<p class="poetry">Because he covered his face with fat,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and made<n id="2" /> his hips bulge with fat,<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In the north<n id="1" /> when he is at work,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I do not see him;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">when he turns<n id="4" /> to the south,p> <p class="poetry">I see no trace of him.p>

<p class="poetry">But he is unchangeable,<n id="1" /> and who can change<n id="2" /> him?p> <p class="poetry">Whatever he<n id="3" /> has desired, he does.p>

<p class="poetry">for I do not know how to give honorary titles,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if I did,<n id="2" /> my Creator would quickly do away with me.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But no one says, &#8216;Where is God, my Creator,p> <p class="poetry">who gives songs in the night,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he does great things beyond our understanding.<n id="2" />p>