character revelation through action

إِن يَسْـَٔلْكُمُوهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا۟ وَيُخْرِجْ أَضْغَـٰنَكُمْ

If He should ask you for them and press you, you would withhold, and He would expose your hatred [i.e., unwillingness].