1. Is there one who can help me show endurance for an hour?
With tears, my endurance has flowed away.

2. A naked child cries in the belly of the night.
Affliction has seized his body, seizing without cease.

3. I approached him compassionately like
A feeble chick to a vicious fowler fully armed.

4. I asked him what was his problem, whereupon
Tears streamed from him, he was unable to speak.

5. I wiped them until his heart was calmed,
And after that I asked him some more questions.

6. What can I say? I was struck down
By every horrible misfortune that can move mountains.

7. Time has taken my parents and left me no
Uncles or aunts that it did not destroy.

8. And a sister, like a bough in her flourishing,
Was swept away by the wind of death and leaned over.

9. And the fangs of hunger tore my entrails
And rewarded my body with an incurable disease.

10. So I sought death, knowing that it
Was a better state than the woe of this life.

11. And here, speech was cut off by some obstacle
That came between speech and him.

12. By God, when he threw himself upon me,
And death earnestly penetrated his body,

13. He breathed his last in my hands, so I smelled
A light rising to the Most High God.

14. And I heard the humming of angels around him
And saw the mercy of our Lord unfolding continuously.

15. There my endurance, which had abandoned me, fell into my hands
And disciplined my weeping eyes pouring down tears.