1. O you who submits to desire, why don't you graze with one
Whose wild donkeys are obedient to him in service

2. Who sits atop the ground while from him
Tears of sorrow pour forth like dripping water

3. O ignorant one, his knowledge brought ruin to his health
You wronged yourself if you were excessive in blames

4. Miserable is the commitment to an act whose committer
Remains in his body necessitating sickness

5. This infatuation which threw you into abjectness
You became from it, slender of body like a reed

6. You imagine with it, the harm of a scholar is averted
Yet it is that which can strengthen a boy's lust

7. Shame on an evil habit, seldom did its migrant flee
By it the mobilizer is necessitated to the necessitous

8. Woe to you, dependent on the palm, trembling
Oh, if only that palm which belongs to you were paralyzed

9. This is the sin of David which became famous
Transgression and murder but without bloodshed