I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
Then he said, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope; yet I will defend my ways to his face.
For then thou wouldest number my steps, thou wouldest not keep watch over my sin;
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?’
I chose their way, and sat as chief, and I dwelt 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 as a crown;
Does not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.