1. The honorable is not
But the content ascetic

2. So what is more precious than contentment
And what is more lowly than greed

3. Why are people heedless
They are deceived by respite

4. Prepare for the journey
And get ready for the transfer

5. Beware, the sensible understands
Except the ignorant asks

6. Are you in doubt
How great is misfortune

7. Your life is a beloved
With its beauty and goodness

8. But it is a betrayer
Tricky and cunning

9. It has no lover
Its passing is near

10.
Like a promiscuous whore

11. Who wears every attire
Deceitful and treacherous

12. It has no loyalty
Fortunes change

13. Hopes are belied
Friends are separated

14. Kinsmen are scattered
Gifts are taken back

15. Drinks are troubled
It is war to whoever makes peace with it

16. Bores whoever accompanies it
Its noble one is ignoble

17. Its many are few
Its healthy one is sick

18. Its generous one is stingy
Meeting it is parting

19. And its wedding is divorce
Its union is estrangement

20. And its promise is a threat
Its kings are slaves

21. Its opulent one is destitute
Its intimacy is hardship

22. Its aloofness is affliction
Its knots are untied

23. Its covenants are rejected
Its remedy is malady

24. And its shelter is miserable
Its good is good

25. Its devil is pelted
Its drink is a mirage

26. Its bliss is torment
If it comes it seduces

27. If it turns away it punishes
Its morals are blameworthy

28. Its pleasures are poisonous
Its forbidden is well-known

29. Its estranged ones are many
Its loyalty is wondrous

30. Its clarity is strange
The ignorant gain it

31. And the vulgar enjoy it
The sensible man suffers from it