[3.] Here the deceased begins to speak himself.
[4.] I translate
the beating in measure as the musicians do, the regular applause so often heard in the East.
[5.] The person changes, as is often the case in such texts. The deceased speaks of himself in the third person.
CHAPTER CLIIIA.
The Chapter of coming out of the net.([1])
O he who turns backwards, mighty of heart, who spreads his net before him, who entereth the earth! O you the fishermen sons of their fathers([2]), who go round in the midst of the stream, you will not catch me in your net, in which you catch the disabled, and you will not carry me away in your canvas, in which you take away the evil ones in the earth; the frame of which reaches the sky, and the weights of which are on the earth.