Psalms 139:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 63:9 : 9 Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.
  • Ps 139:13 : 13 Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.
  • Eccl 11:5 : 5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
  • Job 10:8-9 : 8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust? 10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? 11 You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.
  • Exod 11:5 : 5 and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
  • Eph 4:9 : 9 Now what is the meaning of“he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 139:12-14
    3 verses
    87%

    12even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.

    13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.

    14I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly;

  • Ps 139:16-17
    2 verses
    87%

    16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.

    17How difficult it is for me to fathom your thoughts about me, O God! How vast is their sum total!

  • Job 31:15
    77%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Job 10:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

    9Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?

  • Ps 51:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

    6Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

  • Ps 71:6-7
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    75%

    6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

    7Many are appalled when they see me, but you are my secure shelter.

  • Ps 139:1-9
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    74%

    1For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know.

    2You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives.

    3You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do.

    4Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it.

    5You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me.

    6Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it.

    7Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence?

    8If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be.

    9If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea,

  • Job 10:11
    74%

    11You clothed me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    74%

    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

    10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

  • Prov 8:23-27
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    74%

    23From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.

    24When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;

    25before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born,

    26before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.

    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Job 38:4
    72%

    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

  • Ps 119:73
    72%

    73י(Yod) Your hands made me and formed me. Give me understanding so that I might learn your commands.

  • Job 10:18
    71%

    18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

    18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

  • Ps 142:3
    71%

    3Even when my strength leaves me, you watch my footsteps. In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

  • Job 10:13
    71%

    13“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

  • Job 14:13
    71%

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 29:4
    71%

    4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

  • Jer 1:5
    71%

    5“Before I formed you in your mother’s womb I chose you. Before you were born I set you apart. I appointed you to be a prophet to the nations.”

  • Ps 8:3
    71%

    3When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

  • Ps 102:25
    70%

    25In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork.

  • Isa 48:8
    70%

    8You did not hear, you do not know, you were not told beforehand. For I know that you are very deceitful; you were labeled a rebel from birth.

  • Isa 49:2
    70%

    2He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the hollow of his hand; he made me like a sharpened arrow, he hid me in his quiver.

  • Ps 92:5
    70%

    5How great are your works, O LORD! Your plans are very intricate!

  • Heb 1:10
    70%

    10And,“You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

  • Job 3:10-11
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    70%

    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

    11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

  • Job 42:3
    69%

    3you asked,‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

  • Ps 139:23
    69%

    23Examine me, O God, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!