1. Tell those I yearn for that I long for their company,
Until I felt hope, and they cast me into despair.

2. For long have I been deceived by them without cause,
And the most foolish of people is one deceived by people.

3. They compensated my companionship with estrangement,
And replaced my intimacy with rejection.

4. Had I known what was in their hearts,
I would have severed my ties with them long before today.

5. So I neither knocked on their door to enter,
Nor lifted my head to them even once.

6. Yet I have sinned against myself through them - how much
The hands sin against the eyes and the head!