1. The scorpion prowled in our marketplace
How strange is this trading scorpion

2. The scorpion assessed and became certain
That it has no worldly life nor afterlife

3. If it goes back, it returns to what displeased it
And it had shoes ready at hand

4. An enemy's plot is in its sting
Not of one who plots or lights fire

5. Every incoming enemy is feared
And a scorpion is dreaded when it turns its back

6. As if when it went out in its container
It tightened its strength, rising early