Psalms 139:15

“My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, etc.] Or “my bone”f1857; everyone of his bones, which are the substantial parts of the body, the strength of it; and so some render it “my strength”f1858; those, though covered with skin and flesh yet, being done by the Lord himself, were not hid from him; nor the manner of their production and growth, which being done in secret is a secret to men; for they know not how the bones grow in the womb of her that is with child, (<211105>Ecclesiastes 11:5); but God does; [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth; or formed in my mother’s womb, as the Targum, and so Jarchi, like a curious piece of needlework or embroidery,…”

“My substance was not hid from thee - Thou didst see it; thou didst understand it altogether, when it was hidden from the eyes of man. The word “substance” is rendered in the margin, “strength” or “body.” The Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, the Syriac, the Arabic, and Luther render it, “my bone,” or “my bones.” The word properly means strength, and then anything strong. Another form of the word, with different pointing in the Hebrew, means a bone, so called from its strength. The allusion here is to the bodily frame, considered as strong, or as that which has strength. Whatever there was that entered into and constituted the vigor of his frame, the psalmist says, was seen and known by God,…”

“substance: or, strength, or body when I: Psa 139:13; Job 10:9-11; Exo 11:5 in the lowest: Psa 63:9; Eph 4:9 Psalms 139:16”