Bugging me

Do you ever get bugged by a phrase that just sticks in your mind and won't let go?
Can't think where it came from or why it's clogging up your brain space, but can't get any peace till you find out?
I knew it was from somewhere in the Old Testament so that narrows down the search a bit - to needle-in-the-haystack proportions!
And I thought it was something to do with Jacob (or was it Joseph?)
But it wasn't the bit about Jacob wrestling with the angel, because I checked that out, in the book of Genesis.
So I asked Warren at church on Sunday morning. He's training to be assistant pastor so he'll have to get used to people expecting him to know all the answers!
Jacob, he said. (Umm, I think. Yes, definitely Jacob.) But not the bit where he wrestles with the angel. Because the quote wouldn't make sense then, because Jacob definitely knew that God had been with him then. So it was some time before then. Definitely in Genesis. Somewhere near the front.
Getting warmer, then.
He grabbed a bible and started flipping pages. Now I'd got somebody else bugged.
(Aagh! I know it! I'll find it!
Nope. Can't get it.)
Joan overheard. Definitely the book of Genesis, she said. Definitely Jacob.
She took a large-print bible out of the cupboard and started flipping pages back and forth.
I'll get it, she said. Hang on a bit.
I have to go, I said. Husband, lunch, sorry and all that.
I'm halfway out of the door and Joan calls me.
Got it, she says. Jacob's ladder. Genesis 28.
The part where Jacob, on a journey to an unknown land far from home, has been overtaken by darkness and lies down and sleeps and in a dream sees a ladder reaching from earth to heaven. Angels are going up and down between heaven and earth, and God promises Jacob he will give him the territory where he's lying and will extend his influence far and wide, will take care of him wherever he goes and bring him back safely to this very spot.
And Jacob wakes up and says .... (and YES! this is the quote that's been bugging me all this week and last .... ) ...."Truly, God is in this place and I never knew it!"
Fantastic, huh? It fits every circumstance, but especially when you're far from home and out of your comfort zone, and doesn't wait till you're perfect (Jacob was, at that time, very much a work in progress.)
Truly, God is in this place.
And I never knew it.
But now I've got it firmly fixed in my head.
Still don't know where it's taking me, but at least I now know where it's come from!