pleased the Lord, so is it come to pass: blessed be the name of the
Lord."

So Satan perceived that, though all that I had possessed was taken
from me, nothing could break my spirit or make me rebel against God.
He departed, therefore, and asked leave of the Lord that he might
afflict my body. And the Lord gave him power over my body to use it
as he would, but over my life He gave him no power. Then Satan came
to me as I sat upon my throne mourning for the loss of my children;
and he came in the form of a great whirlwind, and cast my throne down
to the ground, so that I lay for three hours without moving. And he
smote me with a sore plague from head to foot, and I was filled with
worms and ulcers and corruption. Therefore I arose and went out of
the city in great misery and sorrow of heart, and sat upon a
dunghill, being severed from the sons of men because of my evil
plague. And there I remained many days. And I had no strength to work
and earn my bread, so that my wife was compelled to labour as a
handmaid in the house of a rich man, and carry water; and for that
they gave her bread, and she brought it to me. Then was I cut to the
heart, and said, "Alas for the pride of the men of this place! How
can they endure to treat my wife as a slave?" Yet after that again
I strengthened my soul and was patient.

After some time they refused to give my wife food enough for her and
myself, but allowed her only half of what they had given her before:
yet this she shared with me. Yea, she was not ashamed to go and beg
of the bakers in the market-place, that she might have wherewith to
feed me.

When Satan saw her do so, he took upon him the likeness of a seller