| International Standard Version | English Standard Version |
| 1LORD, you have examined me; you have known me. | 1O LORD, you have searched me and known me! |
| 2You know when I rest and when I am active. You understand what I am thinking when I am distant from you. | 2You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. |
| 3You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways. | 3You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. |
| 4Even before I have formed a word with my tongue, you, LORD, know it completely! | 4Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. |
| 5You encircle me from back to front, placing your hand upon me. | 5You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. |
| 6Knowledge like this is too amazing for me. It is beyond my reach, and I cannot fathom it. | 6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. |
| 7Where can I flee from your spirit? Or where will I run from your presence? | 7Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? |
| 8If I rise to heaven, there you are! If I lay down with the dead, there you are! | 8If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! |
| 9If I take wings with the dawn and settle down on the western horizon | 9If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, |
| 10your hand will guide me there, too, while your right hand keeps a firm grip on me. | 10even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me. |
| 11If I say, "Darkness will surely conceal me, and the light around me will become night," | 11If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” |
| 12even darkness isn't dark to you, darkness and light are the same to you. | 12even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. |
| 13It was you who formed my internal organs, fashioning me within my mother's womb. | 13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. |
| 14I praise you, because you are fearful and wondrous! Your work is wonderful, and I am fully aware of it. | 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. |
| 15My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth. | 15My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. |
| 16Your eyes looked upon my embryo, and everything was recorded in your book. The days scheduled for my formation were inscribed, even though not one of them had come yet. | 16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. |
| 17How deep are your thoughts, God! How great is their number! | 17How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! |
| 18Were I to count them, they would number more than the sand. When I awake, I will be with you. | 18If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. |
| 19God, if only you would execute the wicked, so that the men guilty of bloodshed would get away from me, | 19Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God! O men of blood, depart from me! |
| 20who speak against you with evil motives, your enemies who are acting in vain. | 20They speak against you with malicious intent; your enemies take your name in vain. |
| 21I hate those who hate you, LORD, do I not? I loathe those who rebel against you, do I not ? | 21Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? |
| 22With consummate hatred I hate them; I consider them my enemies. | 22I hate them with complete hatred; I count them my enemies. |
| 23Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts. | 23Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! |
| 24See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way. | 24And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! |
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