I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.
He said, *Your name will no longer be called Ya`akov, but Yisra'el; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.*
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.