1. O minister, fulfill my need if you wish with a gesture
The loyal obtained it before me, I was not

2. Inferior to them in knowledge or capability
My age has exceeded sixty, yet

3. My strength and skill persist
If the likes of me have no disability

4. Is it wise to confine him to his house?
Indeed, leaving the service of homelands after

5. The long time I spent in life is a loss
And my whole life I spent

6. Sometimes in justice and education
I have no estate to provide

7. Sustenance for my children, no commerce
Though numerous, none of my children

8. Can yet earn a living
Keep me a few more years until

9. The eldest is able to provide for the little ones
Or until what I hold runs out

10. And that would be praiseworthy for viewers