Holy Scripture
Proverbs 23:34
A church father on this verse
“For he sleeps in the midst of the sea who, placed among the temptations of this world, neglects to look out for the motions of vices that rush in upon him like impending heaps of waves. And the steersman, as it were, lets go the rudder when the mind loses the earnestness of solicitude for guiding the ship of the body.…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
34And thou shalt lie as in the midst of the sea, And as a pilot in a great storm.
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In context
32But at last such a one stretches himself out as one smitten by a serpent, And venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
33Whenever thine eyes shall behold a strange woman, Then thy mouth shall speak perverse things.
— Proverbs 23:34 —
35And thou shalt say, They smote me, and I was not pained; And they mocked me, and I knew it not: When will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?