Holy Scripture
Proverbs 4:16
A church father on this verse
“Let your loins be girded about. Virtue should serve as a girdle in the place where passion should be checked. One who drops off the girdle of virtue cannot overcome the vices of the body. So girded with the cincture of purity—it is the badge of membership in the Christian army—let us cut away the dissolute cowardice o…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16For they cannot sleep, unless they have done evil: Their sleep is taken away, and they rest not.
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14Go not in the ways of the ungodly, Neither covet the ways of transgressors.
15In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; But turn from them, and pass away.
— Proverbs 4:16 —
17For these live upon the bread of ungodliness, And are drunken with wine of transgression.
18But the ways of the righteous shine like light; They go on and shine, until the day be fully come.