however, does not concern the location of the origins of life as much as it does whether God was present even there. He concludes in the affirmative. All the days ordained for me. The psalmist indicates that all the days ordained for him are written in “your book.” Other texts in the Old Testament refer to a scroll or book; many of these texts (e.g., Exod 32:32–33; Pss 56:8; 69:28; Dan 12:1; Mal 3:16) serve various functions but none imply that they contain the preordained affairs of humans. Hossfeld