1. The sword does not hasten death at all,
Nor does the coat of mail or shield ward off the dove.

2. People are all from the work of the Creator,
Like lines that are read for a time, then fade away.

3. Some people claim asceticism, in their imagining,
How can an agitator be an ascetic, his spear and horse ready?

4. He has accumulated sins, clouding his companions,
The arrows, sword, calligraphy and horse.

5. O gazelle, what are you, that the wolves befriend you?
Wolves are by nature vicious.

6. Does the lion know, when he goes out hunting,
That soon he will become the hunted?

7. Whom do you blame for past wrongs
When nothing moved until the bell was rung?

8. People admire words, when tested,
Yet better than them are the mute and deaf.

9. The Israelites went to their schools
Reciting, though all they studied was useless.

10. You sent your servants seeking water persistently,
Yet when the rope failed you, no blame lies with the west.

11. Evil is what the passionate hopes to reap,
If the planter says: “Evil is what they have sown.”

12. The eagle lived as long as the king protected it,
Its dwelling had no lock or guard.

13. Seeing the joy of the people in the house, its enemy
Imagined it was a wedding.