1. Alas, O coveter of livelihood so ardently
Woe to you, what do you covet?

2. You seem to pant with greed every day
Your shirt flies away from you out of fear

3. You have no wealth except what sustenance is ordained
No matter how much you move about and change

4. Sustenance comes to the content without effort
Yet the greedy one is deprived of it

5. I saw that the life of this world is fleeting
We and it are drifting farther and farther apart

6. Our greed for it is not like its indifference to us
Nor is our plunging into it like its plunging

7. So some people quench their thirst with its water
While others just wet their lips

8. And some only assume it has riches
If they get a chance, they are but thieves