Holy Scripture
Proverbs 30:19
A church father on this verse
“For as a serpent cannot mark its track upon a rock, so the devil could not find sin in the body of Christ. For the Lord says, "Behold, the prince of this world cometh, and will find nothing in me." -For as a ship, sailing in the sea, leaves no traces of her way behind her, so neither does the Church, which is situate…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
19the track of a flying eagle; and the ways of a serpent on a rock; and the paths of a ship passing through the sea; and the ways of a man in youth.
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In context
17The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.
18Moreover there are three things impossible for me to comprehend, and the fourth I know not:
— Proverbs 30:19 —
20Such is the way of an adulterous woman, who having washed herself from what she has done, says she has done nothing * amiss.
21By three things the earth is troubled, and the fourth it can’t bear: