Holy Scripture
Psalms 38:7
A church father on this verse
“"For my soul is filled with illusions, and there is no soundness in my flesh" [Psalm 38:7]. Where there is the whole man, there there is soul and flesh both. The "soul is filled with illusions;" the flesh hath "no soundness." What does there remain that can give joy? Is it not meet that one should "go mourning"? "All…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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5O Lord, make me to know mine end, And the number of my days, what it is; That I may know what I lack.
6Behold, thou hast made my days old; And my existence is as nothing before thee: Nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.
— Psalms 38:7 —
8And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? And my ground of hope is with thee. Pause.
9Deliver me from all my transgressions: Thou hast made me a reproach to the foolish.