Commentary for Sanhedrin 196:7

אמור מעתה ראויים היו ישראל לעשות להם נס בביאה שניה כביאה ראשונה אלא שגרם החטא

R. Johanan said likewise: Let him come, and let me not see him. Resh Lakish said to him: Why so? Shall we say, because it is written, As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him,' or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Amos V, 19. ');">¹²</span> But come, and I will shew you its like even in this world. When one goes out into the field and meets a bailiff,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who contests his title to the field — (Jast.). Rashi translates: an official surveyor, who fixes the boundary lines of the different owners, and thus may increase or: limit one's property. ');">¹³</span>

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