Holy Scripture
Psalms 140:9
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“The head of their compassing about, the labor of their own lips shall cover them. Just as a serpent, when it sees someone coming to strike it, makes a coil of its whole body and hides its head in the middle, where it knows its life resides: so too these heretics, by the discourse of the philosophers and of Aristotle a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9Keep me from the snare which they have set for me, And from the stumbling blocks of them that work iniquity.
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7As a lump of earth is crushed upon the ground, Our bones have been scattered by the mouth of the grave.
8For mine eyes are to thee, O Lord God: I have hoped in thee; take not away my life.
— Psalms 140:9 —
10Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.