1. You know who you are confiding in when sitting with your enemy
Ill-will appears in people's talk though they pretend

2. Evil in earth's creatures is widespread
And humans are like beasts, some harmful, some docile

3. Fate takes its course, dragging the reluctant stallion
To shackles and reins against its will

4. So disagree with people and you will be rightly guided whenever they speak
Stay silent with dignity even if they are quiet, then say:

5. Seek your own approval from ignoble backbiters
And those who attack heroes while shackled

6. Don't you see how the meteors in their orbits have moved
By the power of a King who is unmoving?