1. They call out to him, but he is deaf to them,
Then they said, and the women began to wail,

2. "What has made you unable to give an answer?
Oh, you, the eloquent and fluent speaker!

3. If you cannot bear to give a reply,
Then by what you see, though you are an orator,

4. With admonitions - yet you have admonished us with nothing
Like the admonition of silence, when you do not answer."