1 Samuel 21:15

He said, “Why does my lord pursue his servant? For what have I done? What evil is in my hand?

Though princes sit and slander me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because of his majesty, I can do nothing.

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.

Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’