Instruction of Amenemope

Budge1924 English printed page 158

158 THE TEACHING OF AMEN-EM-APT 230. He is of the potter’s wheel of {i.e. , worked by) the devil Tar,^ 231. He mixes together and kneads [material] to destroy the hearts (or, minds of men) therewith. 232. He is like a whelp of [one of] the dogs (literally, wolves) of the stable (or, farm- yard) 233. With his eye fixed jealously on [the move- ments of] his companions. 234. (Col. XIII). He causes men and women to become enemies by his scandal-mongering. 235. He goes before every wind like the blast that goes before the habiib {i.e., the sand- storm or whirlwind of the desert). 236. He destroys the hair (or, skin) of Shu.* 237. He gathers his tail (i.e., bends it round) about him like the young crocodile, 238. Bringing it close to him ready for the deadly sweep. 239. His lips are date-syrup, his tongue is a deadly dagger. 240. A consuming fire blazes within his belly. 241. Make no flights {i.e., attempts) to fill {i.e., please) that fellow, 242. Lest thou bring calamity upon thyself. 243. Tenth Chapter. XLIV. 244. Allow not thyself to be greeted as a friend among thy [neighbours] by the hasty, hot-headed man who is thy opponent ; ^ This devil is mentioned in the Rubric to Chap. CLXIV of the Saite Recension of the Book of the Dead under the * This seems to be an allusion to the obscuring of the face of the sky by the storm-clouds produced by the hurricane.