Holy Scripture
Proverbs 6:12
A church father on this verse
“An apostate man, a useless man walks with a perverse mouth, etc. He spoke of heresies and other kinds of vices; he had instructed a teacher, aroused the sluggard, but now he reproves the schismatic. Where it should be noted that he who wished to call the sower of quarrels, first named him an apostate, because unless h…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12A foolish man and a transgressor Goes in ways that are not good.
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10Thou sleepest a little, and thou restest a little, and thou slumberest a short time, And thou foldest thine arms over thy breast a little.
11Then poverty comes upon thee as an evil traveler, And want as a swift courier: a But if thou be diligent, thy harvest shall arrive as a fountain, And poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
— Proverbs 6:12 —
13And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, And teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.
14His perverse heart devises evils: At all times such a one causes troubles to a city.