It was for this reason, and to prevent my thinking too highly of myself, that a thorn was sent to pierce my flesh – an instrument of Satan to discipline me – so that I should not think too highly of myself.
Ruth 4:6
‘I cannot buy it for myself without spoiling my own inheritance,’ the near relative said. ‘You take my right of buying it as a relative, because I cannot do so.’
Esther 4:5
So Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what it all meant and the reason for it.
Psalms 18:23
And I was blameless before him, guarding myself from sin.
Psalms 35:13
But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
Psalms 55:8
I would find myself a shelter from raging wind and tempest.