Chapter 67.

1. I also saw the soul of a man (2) who was suspended by one leg in the darkness of hell [or hell of darkness]; (3) and he had an iron sickle in his hand, and ever gashed his own chest and armpits [or loins], (4) and an iron spike was driven into his eye. 5. And I asked thus: 'Whose soul is this? and what sin was committed by him?' 6. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man, to whom a city was confided for administration; (8) and that which was proper to do and order, was not done and not ordered; (9) and deficient weights and measures of capacity and length were kept, (10) and he listened to no complaints from the poor and from travellers [lit.

caravan people. see also ch. 68 and ch. 93.].'