Chapter 90. [Lying and profanity]

1. Then I saw the souls of those whom serpents sting and ever devour their tongues. 2. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by those, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 3. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (4) thus: 'These are the souls of those liars and irreverent [or 'untruthful'] speakers who, in the world, spoke much falsehood and lies and profanity.'