By Jews I five times received forty strokes less one, three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I experienced shipwreck, a night and a day I have spent in the deep; in journeys often, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from highwaymen, in dangers from my own race, in dangers from the nations, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers, in labor and toil, in sleepless nights often, in hunger and thirst, in abstinence from food many times, in cold and nakedness.
Kolm korda on mind vitstega pekstud, üks kord kividega visatud, kolm korda on laev hukka läinud, terve öö ja päeva ma olen olnud mere sügavuses. Sagedasti olen ma oma teekondadel hädaohus olnud jõgedel, hädas mõrtsukate käes, hädas oma rahva seas, hädas paganate keskel, hädas linnas, hädas kõrbes, hädas merel, hädas valevendade seas, töös ning vaevas; sagedasti valvamises, näljas ja janus, sagedasti paastumistes, külmas ja alastiolekus.