CHAPTER 39

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) who ever ate the skin and flesh of men. 3. And I asked thus: 'Whose soul is this?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, kept back the wages of laborers, and the shares of partners; (6) and now the soul must suffer severe punishment.'