1. O you man who shows his enmity
Consider for yourself which command you will obey

2. Do not think me like the people you have ruled
By force when pretexts flow like excuses

3. And I did not know what resentment you harbored
Until the caravans and tidings brought it to me

4. If you wish for glory over glories
Then extend your hands for the good is to be grasped

5. And know that I have the best of a company
Like crescents that no mortal transcends

6. The angry envious one cannot ascend their glory
As long as he remains stoned by its misfortunes

7. Wretched is the youth you are unless between you
Is the difference between the light of sun and moon

8. And I reckon you will not stop
Until touched by its claws of triumph

9. Do not praise a man until you have tested him
And do not blame one not yet tried by experience

10. Truly I am a man who seldom praises anyone
Until I see some of what he does and some of what he leaves

11. When a people's enmity was
In the heart or in their spying eyes

12. I walk the naked plains against people I battle
Until destitution appears before them

13. I gathered the patience of a ode in rhyme
Which will not leave the ages without trace among them