1. Make for yourself among your people a doctrine
Good you will find it by your standard

2. Ensure sovereignty and contentment among its people
Who lived among them with grace and consolation

3. And seriousness is the best that honors an ambitious one
And jest is the easiest that demolishes a foundation

4. And inquire from the fathers about their sons
For lineage was by its nature penetrating

5. And clarify excuses from one who makes excuses
For the free man is from weighing matters and founding

6. And there is perhaps a hidden flaw behind your back
Upon which an enemy unleashed a sword

7. So if the voices of evildoers rise up then beware
The barking of dogs alerts the guards

8. Matters have become hard even though I have advised and even if
Casting reason aside has become reason today

9. Perhaps some will awake from their slumber
And we see on the face of the earth people