1. Do not be amazed by those who gratify the bodies, for beasts
Have been tamed, yet man was not gratified.

2. They set out to gratify the delicate soul, but their
Arrows did not miss that target.

3. And they turned away from it, from the attributes of their bodies.
Is not the essence of the body the most despised of accidents?

4. And others discarded turning away from it. Therefore
They exposed themselves to accidents and mishaps.

5. Great is the difference between one healthy but ill
And one distressed by the utmost illness and extinction.

6. And between one who gratified a vanishing body
And one content with it and gratified.

7. Verily the weak live on beans, while the
Strong eat everything without objection.

8. So a man's regimen in the heyday of his health
Is to ignore medicine, like indulgence in sickness.