1. You have become sick in mind and religion, so leave me
To hear news of truthful matters

2. So do not eat what the water has produced unjustly
And do not seek sustenance from the slaughter of sacrifices

3. And the milk of mothers who wanted it clear
For their children, not the strange infants

4. And do not make the birds grieve while they are absent
With what they have laid, for oppression is the worst of evils

5. And leave striking the bees that woke early for it
Like earners from the blossoms of plants beginning to bloom

6. For what they have gained, how can it be for others
And they did not gather it for the dew and the drizzles

7. I have washed my hands of all this, if only I
Had become confused about my affair before the graying of temples

8. Oh people of my time, do you know secrets
That I have known, but I do not expose them

9. You have insisted on going astray, why have you not been guided
By what I presented you clearly?

10. And the caller to misguidance called you, so why did you
Respond to what every screamer imagined?

11. When will you uncover the truths of your religion?
You will uncover your shameful disgraces

12. So if you are rightly guided, do not redden the sword with blood
And do not obligate miles to probe wounds

13. And I like the way of those who became devout
Except their eating, the squeezing of stingy souls

14. And more pleasant food in his life than them
Is the seekers of lawful gains between present and coming

15. For the Christ did not detain the soul in devotion
But walked the earth walking like a wanderer

16. Burying me in dirt is he who hates me
If the stench does not bury me first

17. And whoever fears neighborly the greatest
Like the greatest of those vanished civilizations

18. And of the worst morals of a companion and their actions
Is vile chanting and prolonged wailing

19. And I pardon a friend's sin and another's
To settle the house of truth among the pure

20. And I care little for praising the youth in his honesty
So how can I accept the liars' praises?

21. And the stubborn soul has not stopped being led
To become one of the scattered perversities

22. And it does not benefit man that clouds
Pass over him under one of the tents

23. And if there was a desire in some for water
People would compete in the graves of the fallen