Kabbalah zu Tehillim 17:3

The wealthy one in tefilah - this is the Shechinah, about whom it is said "A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, what is just [heed my cry, give ear to my prayer, uttered without guile]" (Ps. 17:1). And David, through the Holy Spirit, said this about the end of the days of Exile, about Israel: "You probed my mind, You visited at night" (Psalms 17:3). And night is always Exile. And everything that Yiov said is a parable about Israel, he said "as a cloud fades away" (Job 7:9). And the Satan came to prosecute against him, and the Holy Blessed One said "Job does not speak with knowledge" (Job 34:35). And even regarding Yaakov, who saw through the Holy Spirit the oppression of the Exile,

So the Holy One, blessed be He, answered David, "As for Abraham, I have already tried and tested him, and he resisted and was found before me to be wholly steadfast." David said to Him, "Examine me, Hashem, and prove me, purify my kidneys and my heart!" (Ps. 26:2) But when he became involved in the matter of Bathsheba, David remembered what he had said to the Holy One, blessed be He, and said, "You have proved my heart, You have visited it in the night. You have tried me, but You did find nothing; Let no presumptuous thought pass my lips" (Ps. 17:3).