“Fruitless is the soul that births nothing good and does good for no one.”
Evagrius Ponticus, 4th c. — NOTES ON THE PSALMS 34[35].12
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12They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul.
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10All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
11False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
— Psalms 35:12 —
13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.