Holy Scripture
Psalms 38:5
A church father on this verse
“For as the putrid humors and matter of flesh, and all those things that corrupt it, are driven out by salt, in the same manner all the irrational appetites … are banished from the body by divine teaching. For it must … be that the soul that is not sprinkled with the words of Christ, as with salt, should stink and bree…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5O Lord, make me to know mine end, And the number of my days, what it is; That I may know what I lack.
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3I was dumb, and humbled myself, and kept silence from good words; And my grief was renewed.
4My heart grew hot within me, And a fire would kindle in my meditation: I spoke with my tongue,
— Psalms 38:5 —
6Behold, thou hast made my days old; And my existence is as nothing before thee: Nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.
7Surely man walks in a shadow; Nay, he is disquieted in vain: He lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.