Holy Scripture
Psalms 140:4
A church father on this verse
“"Preserve me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner, from unrighteous men deliver me" [Psalm 140:4]. Here they wear their real colours, they are known; here we have no need to understand, but to act: we have need to pray, not to ask who they are. But how you should pray against such men, he explains in what follows. For…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Incline not my heart to evil things, To employ pretexts for sins, With men who work iniquity: And let me not unite with their choice ones.
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2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; The lifting up of my hands as an evening sacrifice.
3Set a watch, O Lord, on my mouth, And a strong door about my lips.
— Psalms 140:4 —
5The righteous shall chasten me with mercy, and reprove me: But let not the oil of the sinner anoint my head: For yet shall my prayer also be in their pleasures.
6Their mighty ones have been swallowed up near the rock: They shall hear my words, for they are sweet.