“Is this not stored up with me?” says the Lord, “Is it not sealed up in my storehouses?

when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me;

My glory will always be fresh in me, and my bow ever new in my hand.’

Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

You gave me life and favor, and your intervention watched over my spirit.

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

But he knows the pathway that I take; if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.

when my steps were bathed with butter and the rock poured out for me streams of olive oil!

“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

Laban replied, “I’d rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me.”

The land must not be sold without reclaim because the land belongs to me, for you are foreigners and residents with me.

While I am still alive, extend to me the loyalty of the Lord, or else I will die!

So the king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will take care of you while you are with me in Jerusalem.”

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.