1. Be patient with the succession of misfortunes,
Perhaps that is a herald of recovery.

2. What is the state of him whom disease toyed with unjustly,
Gnawing at the finest of limbs?

3. The doctor forbade him wholesome food,
And made lawful to him the unpleasantness of all foods.

4. And his enemies visit him, yet more severe than
The sickness of the sick is the visit of enemies.