I would declare to Him the number of my steps – I would approach Him like a prince.
And He said, “Your name is no longer called Yaʽ
And his possessions were seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys, and a very large body of servants, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.
Though, He does slay me – I wait! But I show my ways to be right before Him.
For now You count my steps – do You not watch over my sin?
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the noble one? And where is the tent, the dwelling place of the wrong ones?’
I chose the way for them, and sat as chief, and I dwelt like a sovereign in the army, like one who comforts mourners.
Would I not take it up on my shoulder, bind it on me for a crown?
Does He not see my ways, and number all my steps?
If one wished to dispute with Him, he would not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
in whom we have boldness and access, with reliance, through belief in Him.