1. We while away time with burdens,
Our lives hastening to ruin.

2. Hope's ambitions ascend,
Neither limited nor finite.

3. Man is pleased with his earnings,
Though they be the door to grief and sorrow.

4. Thus they are a debt to time, so
The arrogant rejoice not in provisions.

5. Does the butcher in his generosity
Feed the sheep with fodder out of kindness?

6. The fat of the emaciated is destruction,
The dough is satisfied with bran.