SOURCE: Stutchkoff, Der Oytser fun der Yidisher Shprakh. Image: detail from An Angel leading a soul into hell by a follower of Hieronymus Bosch (credit: Wellcome Library, London). Compare:
.פֿון עקשנות וועגן גייט מען אַ מאָל פֿון גן–עדן אין גיהנום ארײַן
Fun akshones vegn geyt men amol fun gan-eydn in gehenem arayn.
Because of stubbornness, people sometimes go from paradise to hell.
SOURCE: Bernstein, Jüdische Sprichwörter und Redensarten
