1. Ignorance is more comforting to the young man than his intellect
He goes to bed and wakes up feeling safe and content

2. He has cast aside consequences from his thoughts
And wandered freely in passion and daybreak

3. While intellect makes him regretful
And holds him back, leaving him confounded

4. You see him very worried, his sorrow heavy
He lives captive or dies destitute

5. When ignorance rose high in our time
And the foolish progressed, obtaining status and thrones

6. I concealed my knowledge and discarded my merits
So that if I were ignorant, I would become a prince