I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.”
He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred donkeys, and very many servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.
See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.
For then you would not number my steps; you would not keep 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 what they should do and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown;
Does he not see my ways and number all my steps?
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.
But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.
in whom we have access in boldness and confidence through faith in him.