Chapter 96. [Didn't sow seed]

1. Then I saw the soul of a man whose tongue was cut out; (2) and they ever drag him by the hair, and scatter about the dead refuse [probably the hair pulled out by the roots], and measure it with a bushel. 3. And I asked thus: 'What sin was committed by this man, whose soul suffers so severe a punishment?' 4. Srosh the pious, and Adar the angel, said (5) thus: 'This is the soul of that wicked man who, in the world, took seed, (6) and said thus: 'I will sow it;' and he sowed it not, (7) but ate it; and the earth of Spandarmad was defrauded.'