1. Condolences, O sons of honor
For prolonged grief and yearning

2. Will lead you to ruin
And your father cannot suffice

3. If you were reasonable
Do not let sorrow rain

4. For the loss of a father transferred
To a desolate, bleak grave

5. And you have resorted to loss
And hope does not distract you

6. And the best provision, endure
For the day of promise and sorrow

7. One bids farewell to another
And we all bid farewell to the earth

8. Whether we dislike or accept
For it is an unchanging promise

9. So this home is a home of oblivion
And a home of sorrow and distress

10. And encompassing poverty and riches
And salvation and destruction

11. And no one in it remains
Or avoids fate

12. Or is spared its sting
Or professional distortion

13. The meadows of death, none can avoid
Or turn away from it

14. But for the young man there is a respite
If he is met with, he will not halt

15. Our world, while we are in it
Is like an unmindful dress

16. And like beasts resembling
Grazing in a meadow of bliss

17. When it blossoms for its hunter
It turns away from its births

18. And fears the evil of its hunter
And the towering dignity wilts

19. And when its stalker is absent
In it settle its prey

20. And its tools dazzle it
For the shepherd and the young to graze

21. So here I am, an example for it
When hope deceived us

22. And effort and work were lost
In the abode of humiliation and fall

23. And none of us took heed
Of what befell the predecessors

24. They became lessons for the inheritors
So from latter to former

25. Who owned and who led
And the wise and the foolish

26. And the wealthy and the needy
Became dry corpses

27. Condolences after your father
With your manners and births

28. And live in your feasts
A heedless pleasant life

29. I advise you with God's piety
So obey those who advise you

30. For death will take account of you
By force and violence

31. And obey your mother
To unite your group

32. And avert your worries
By deceit and patchwork

33. And all of you be honorable
Make your young an elder

34. For you, and use morality
To save you from foolishness

35. When your little ones
And elders you find

36. And your eldest is among you
You reach the height of honor

37. You are a band of weakness
So do not use excess

38. Enough of what I say enough
Beware of injustice