1. My envious rival, his excellence provoked him,
His wicked nature made him repay me with ingratitude.

2. O most despicable and foolish of people in my eyes,
I now refuse to call you a human.

3. If only you knew whom among people you envy,
He would not accept you as dirt beneath his sandal.

4. If you do not see the sun's light out of envy,
Not all people are as blind as you.

5. So live in disgrace and die suffused with resentment,
Complaining at times of poverty, at others of fire.