Holy Scripture
Psalms 34:13
A church father on this verse
“The most common and varied sin is that committed through the tongue. Were you provoked to anger? The tongue is already running on. Are you possessed by concupiscence? Before all things you have a tongue, a sort of pimp and promoter, as it were, assistant to the sin, subduing your neighbors by histrionic arts. Your ton…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13But I, when they troubled me, put on sackcloth, And humbled my soul with fasting: And my prayer shall return to my own bosom.
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In context
11Unjust witnesses arose, and asked me of things I knew not.
12They rewarded me evil for good, And bereavement to my soul.
— Psalms 34:13 —
14I behaved agreeably toward them as if it had been our neighbor or brother: I humbled myself as one mourning and sad of countenance.
15Yet they rejoiced against me, And plagues were plentifully brought against me, and I knew it not: They were scattered, but repented not.