821、有些人表面有一副诚实的面孔，似乎过着诚实的生活，以避免人们怀疑他们的诚实。他们在各方面都仔细研究如何为了晋升和致富而又无需丧失名声来维持这种表象。因此，他们不公开行动，而是利用狡猾的手段通过其他人来剥夺他人的财物，根本不关心他们所剥夺的家庭会不会饿死。倘能逃避公众视线，他们本人就会做出这种事来，毫无良心可言。所以，他们的本性和他们自己的实际行为一模一样。他们是暗中的盗贼，与其各种仇恨相苟合的，是蔑视、贪婪、无情和欺骗。在来世，这种人希望被视为无罪，声称他们没有做错什么，因为什么都没发现。为证明自己无罪，他们脱掉衣服，赤身露体，以此证明自己的清白。但当他们接受检查时，其他人从他们所说的每句话和他们所思想的每个观念清楚察觉出他们的本质，只是他们没有意识到这一点。
在来世，这种人想谋杀他们所遇见的任何同伴，毫无良心可言。他们手里还拿着一把斧头和一个木槌，并且似乎还有另一个灵人与他们同在；当这个灵人仰面躺下时，他们就攻击他，但没有流血，因为他们害怕死亡。他们无法扔掉手中的这些武器，无论他们如何竭尽全力想要扔掉，以防人们发现他们是这种人，还防止他们实际的凶残本性暴露在灵人和天使眼前。这些灵人就在两脚之下的中间距离处，朝向前方。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]821. There are some who maintain an outwardly honest face and honest life to avoid arousing suspicion that they are anything but upright. They eagerly pursue every method of so appearing in order to rise to prominent positions and to get rich without risking their reputation. For this reason they do not act openly. Instead they use agents to strip others of their goods by devious stratagems, not caring in the least whether the families they plunder die of starvation. If it could remain out of sight to the world, they would do the job themselves without a pang of conscience. Still, their character is the same as if they had committed the act themselves. They are covert thieves, and their particular type of hatred involves pride, greed, ruthlessness, and deceit.
[2] When people like this arrive in the other world, they claim to be innocent, saying they have done nothing wrong, since they have never been caught. To demonstrate their blamelessness, they take off their clothes and stand naked, giving witness to their purity. When they are questioned, others perceive exactly what they are like from every word they speak and every thought they think, although they themselves do not realize this is happening.
Every acquaintance they come across in the next life they desire to kill, untroubled by remorse. In their hands they hold an axe and a hammer, while at their feet they seem to have another spirit lying face up, whom they strike. They do not go so far as to spill blood, however, being fearful of death. What is more, they are unable to toss their weapons from their hands, although they try with all their might, in order to keep from being seen for what they are. They do not want the fierceness of their disposition to show in front of spirits and angels.
They occupy a place in the middle distance, under the feet and toward the front.
Potts(1905-1910) 821
821. There are those who outwardly present an honorable face and life, so that no one could suspect them of being other than honorable, studying in every way to appear so, for the sake of being raised to honors, and of acquiring wealth without the loss of reputation. They therefore do not act openly; but through others by deceitful artifices they deprive men of their goods, caring nothing if the families they despoil perish of hunger, and they would themselves be personal agents in this villainy, without any conscience, if they could escape public notice, so that they really are of the same character as if they perpetrated it by their own act. They are hidden robbers, and the kind of hatred peculiar to them is joined with scornful contempt for others, greed of gain, unmercifulness, and deceit. In the other life such men desire to be esteemed blameless, saying that they have done nothing wrong, because it was not detected. And to show themselves guiltless, they put off their garments and present themselves naked-in this way attesting their innocence. Yet while they are being examined their quality is thoroughly well perceived from every single word and every single idea of their thought, without their being aware of it. Such, in the other life, desire without any conscience to murder whatever companions they fall in with. They have also an axe with them, and a maul in their hand, and seem to have another spirit with them whom they strike, when on his back; but not to the shedding of blood, for they are afraid of death. And they cannot cast these weapons out of their hands although they strive to do so with all their might, in order to prevent the actual ferocity of their disposition from appearing before the eyes of spirits and angels. They are at a middle distance under the feet, toward the front.
Elliott(1983-1999) 821
821. There are people who outwardly present an honest face and life so that nobody can suspect them of being anything other than honest. In every way they study carefully how, for the sake of preferment and of getting rich without loss of reputation, to preserve this appearance. Consequently they do not act openly, but by means of others deprive other people of their goods by cunning devices, not caring at all whether the families they deprive might die of hunger. If they could avoid being seen by the world, they themselves would carry it out without any conscience in the matter. In character therefore they are just the same as if they had actually done it themselves. Secretly they are robbers, and coupled to their variety of hatred are contempt, avarice, mercilessness, and deceit. Such people in the next life wish to be considered guiltless, saying that they have done nothing wrong because nothing had been discovered. And to show that they are blameless, they take off their clothes and stand naked as a way of attesting their innocence. But while they are being examined, what they are really like is perceived from the particular expressions they use and from the particular ideas comprising their thinking, though they do not realize this.
[2] Such people in the next life wish to murder without conscience any associates they light upon. They also have with them an axe and a mallet in their hand, and there seems to be another spirit present with them whom they strike as he lies stretched out, without however shedding any blood, for they are afraid of death. Nor can they cast those instruments out of their hands, however much they try with all their might to do so, to prevent its being seen that they are such, and to prevent the viciousness of their disposition becoming apparent before the eyes of spirits and angels. These spirits are at a middle distance beneath the feet, towards the front.
Latin(1748-1756) 821
821. Dantur qui extrinsecus ferunt faciem et vitam honestam, sic ut nemo aliud suspicari possit quam quod sint honesti, studentes omni modo ita apparere ob causam emergendi in honores et absque jactura famae lucrandi; quare nec aperte {1}faciunt, sed per alios; artificiis dolosis spoliant alios suis bonis, nihil curantes si familiae quas spoliant, fame perirent; quod si non pateret coram mundo ipsi actu facerent absque conscientia; ii usque sunt tales ac si actu fecissent. Sunt latrones occulti, et genus eorum odii est cum fastu, aviditate lucri, immisericordia et dolo conjunctum. Tales in altera vita volunt insontes esse, dicentes se nihil mali fecisse quia non detectum; utque inculpatos se praebeant, exuunt vestes, sistunt se nudos, testantes sic innocentiam: dum examinantur, ex singulis vocibus et ex singulis ideis cogitationis percipiuntur prorsus quales sunt, quod ignorant. Tales in altera vita socios, quoscumque offendunt, absque conscientia necare cupiunt; et apud se habent securim et malleum in manu, et videntur habere alium spiritum apud se quem supinatum percutiunt, sed non ad sanguinis effusionem, quia timidi sunt mortis; nec possunt instrumenta ista e manu projicere, quod tamen summa opera conantur ne videantur tales, ut animi eorum ferocia coram spiritibus et angelis appareat: sunt in media distantia sub pedibus versus anteriora. @1 I has faciunt; sed per alios, but cf. S.D. 1207.$