Psalms 139:7
Psalms 139:77Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
JWs read as poetic acknowledgement of Jehovah's far- reaching influence through his "active force" — consistent with their pneumatology where the holy spirit is impersonal divine energy rather than a person. They affirm the verse but do not connect it to the doctrine of God's exclusive omnipresence.
David's rhetorical question — "Where can I escape from your spirit? Where can I run away from your face?" — frames omnipresence as a divine attribute belonging exclusively to Jehovah. The verse is load-bearing for the argument that Satan, in scripture, is never described in such terms. Satan goes to and fro on the earth (), prowls (), can be resisted and made to flee (), can be bound () — all spatial verbs fit for a creature. Yahweh, by contrast, fills heaven and earth (); David cannot escape his Spirit. Granting Satan functional omnipresence ("Satan is behind every doubt", "Satan is at every door") collapses the Creator/creature distinction this Psalm protects.