1. If time has bitten you, then wait for relief,
For it will come to the one who waits for it,

2. Or if harm has touched you or you are tested by it,
Then be patient, for ease comes after hardship.

3. How many restless ones has their recklessness undone,
And how many wary ones cannot sleep for their caution.

4. And how many secure ones has calamity crept upon
In the darkness before dawn while they were sleeping.

5. Whoever contends with time will blame its company,
And attain its purity and also its bitterness.