I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
And he said, Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince have you power with God and with men, and have prevailed.
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.
For now you number my steps: do not watch over my sin.
For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
I chose out their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
Who can understand his errors? cleanse me from secret faults.
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in him.