1. Some people ride precious steeds,
While our mounts are bare feet.

2. Some don beautiful silk apparel,
While our clothes are made of wool from livestock.

3. Some drink exquisite wine from goblets,
While our drink is water, pure from seals.

4. Some eat grilled meat and chicken,
While our food is bread mixed with pain.

5. Some revel in the daughters of Japheth,
While our mates are from the progeny of Ham.

6. They fulfill their worldly desires,
While we are their most obedient servants.

7. When one of us approaches them out of need,
They turn their faces in arrogance and false pride.

8. God is not unaware of what they do,
But allows their sins to increase.

9. Thus mighty calamities befall them,
Of imprisonment, torture, beating, and poison.

10. They become lessons to be mourned by every gloating enemy,
Just as the reveler suffers for his sins.