1. I advised you, but you suspected my advice,
And claimed you were experienced and matured,

2. And you went recklessly riding every wild opinion,
Until what you say and do brought you down.

3. How ill-omened is your opinion when you claim or think
That we should accept your unpleasant judgment.

4. Tie your stick to your tongue, only
The vile submissive one suffers disgrace.

5. We are not, when your right hand takes the stick,
Of those you threaten with it, so they cower.

6. The instructor finds no obedience
Until people see he is reasonable.

7. Did you see what was done by those you claimed
Would not dare oppose you for an hour?

8. Their slippers seized you between the processions,
As the troops looked on and the swords clashed.

9. They returned you barefoot, your thirst
With forehead blood you quench and drink.

10. You set out to speak of mountainsides
Too steep for forces, though picks dig.

11. If the times were rid of the likes of you
Its lofty parts would long be desolate.

12. My lord, forbearance is an armor
With which to repel the foe and guard the slain.

13. Right is what the righteous legislate, so what
Can the misguided demand or the corrupt desire?

14. I advised sincerely when advice was due,
And I see the misguided quick to blame.

15. Be as you wish, for had you thought to repent,
A closed door would have barred your way.

16. Pharaoh believed when his ruin was certain,
And disaster flowed to destroy him.

17. Do you think acceptance came to him in his belief?
Or do you know that it would not be accepted?

18. The city notables brought you their advice
And its finest, most righteous scholar warned you.

19. You claimed they were witless old women
When they were forbearing and the gathering was restrained