The Darby Translation DBY
New International Version NIV
7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
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Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
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If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
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If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
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even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
11 And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
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If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
12 Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.
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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 thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
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I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
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Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
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How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
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