CHAPTER 32

1. I also saw the soul of a lazy man, whom they called Davanos, (2) whose whole body a noxious creature (khrafstar) ever gnawed, and his right foot was not gnawed. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this body?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of the lazy Davanos who, when he was in the world, never did any good work; (6) but with this right foot, a bundle of grass was cast before a ploughing ox.'