1 O All-Seeing and Friend, guard and protect me here: let not that come to me which nests within and swells. I drive afar the scorpion hateful to the sight: let not the winding worm touch me and wound my foot. 2 Eruption that appears upon the twofold joints, and that which overspreads the ankles and the knees, may the Radiant banish far away; let not the winding worm touch me and wound my foot. 3 The poison that is formed upon the tree, that which is found in streams, that which the plants produce, all this may God banish and drive away: let not the winding worm touch me and wound my foot. 4 The steep declivities, the valleys, and the heights, the channels full of water, and the waterless, may those which swell with water, gracious signs of God's mercy, never afflict us with the foot disease, may all the rivers keep us free from it.