Chapter 89. [Uncharitable]

1. Then I saw the souls of those who, on account of weakness, were dashed about from side to side in hell; (2) and they ever kept crying on account of thirst and hunger, cold and heat; (3) and noxious creatures (khrafstars) ever bit out of the back of their legs and other limbs. 4. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by those of these souls, who suffer so severe a punishment?' 5. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (6) thus: 'These are the souls of those wicked whose food and clothing, in the world, were consumed by themselves, (7) and not given by them to the good and worthy; and they exercised no liberality whatever; (8) and they kept themselves, and the people who had come and remained under their control, hungry and thirsty and without clothing; (9) so they suffer cold and heat, hunger and thirst.

(10) Now they are dead, and their wealth has remained for others; (11) now the soul suffers so severe a punishment from their own actions.'