949、左前方有一个拱室，里面没有光，而是一片漆黑，故被称为“暗室”。里面的灵人嫉妒地盯着别人的财产，不断盘算着据为己有，并且只要有可能，就会以似是而非的任何借口占有它们，毫无良心可言。那里的一些灵人活在世上时曾身居高位，却把暗中的狡诈行为当作谨慎的标志。他们在那个拱室中彼此商议（正如他们活在肉身时所行的那样）如何诈骗他人，称那里的黑暗令人快乐。我已经看到，并且如在大白天一样看到在那个地方实施欺诈行为的人最终变成什么样。他们的脸比死人的还可怕，像尸体一样苍白，而且由于活在焦虑的折磨中而布满可怕的麻点。
New Century Edition
Cooper(2008,2013)
[NCE]949. Out in front on the left is a room that holds no light, only pure darkness, which as a result is called the black room. The occupants are people who envied others their belongings and could not stop thinking about them. They stole without remorse whenever they could do so under a plausible pretext. Some there had been fairly prominent when they lived in the world and had honored duplicity as a mark of prudence. In the room they conspire with each other — as they had done while living in their bodies — about ways to deceive and defraud others. The darkness of the place delights them.
I was shown an image of the swindlers living there, in which I saw as clear as day what they eventually come to be like: their faces look worse than a dead person's, as gray as that of a corpse, with horrible pockmarks, as they pass their time in a torment of anxiety.
Potts(1905-1910) 949
949. Toward the left and in front there is a certain chamber in which there is no light, but mere darkness, from which it is called the Dark Chamber. In it are those who have longed for the goods of others, continually hankering after them, and also whenever possible getting possession of them under some specious claim, in the most conscienceless manner. There are some there who when they lived in this world had been in stations of much dignity, but had based the respect due to sagacity on wily practices. In that chamber they consult together-just as when they lived in the body-how to take other people in. The darkness there they call delicious. I was shown the appearance of those who are there and had acted fraudulently. As in clear daylight I saw what they at last come to. Their faces are more hideous than those of the dead, ghastly in hue like a corpse, and pitted with horrible cavities, the result of living in the torment of anxiety.
Elliott(1983-1999) 949
949. To the left and in front there is a vault in which there is no light at all but utter darkness, and which is therefore called 'the dark vault'. It contains spirits who have gazed with envy at other people's goods, all the while intent on having them for themselves, and who, having no conscience, have also made off with them as often as they could under any plausible pretext. Some there are people who when they lived in the world held quite high positions, and who have made a reputation for prudence rest in underhand practices. In that vault they consult among themselves, just as they had done during their lifetime, about how to defraud other people. The darkness in there they call delightful. I have been shown and have seen as in broad daylight what those at length come to look like who are in that place and who have acted fraudulently. Their faces look worse than that of one dead, ashen like that of a corpse, and horridly pitted, the result of living in the torment of anxiety.
Latin(1748-1756) 949
949. Ad sinistrum antrorsum est quaedam camera ubi nihil lucis, sed merae tenebrae, quare vocatur 'camera obscura'; ibi sunt qui aliorum bonis inhiarunt, in quibus continue eorum animus fuit, et quoque absque conscientia abstulerunt quoties titulo aliquo specioso potuerint; sunt ibi qui in multa satis dignitate fuerunt cum vixerunt in mundo, quique in insidiosis posuerunt honorem prudentiae; in camera illa consultant inter se sicut dum vixerunt in corpore quomodo fraudulenter alios decipiant; tenebras ibi vocant delicias: ostensa mihi effigies eorum, quam vidi sicut clara die, quales tandem fiunt, qui ibi, et fraudulenter egerunt, nempe quod facies eorum pejor mortuo, coloris lividi, qualis cadaverum, cum lacunis horrendis; sic degendo in cruciatu anxietatis.