1. Did it make you arrogant that I became dressed in the garb of a pauper
While you, when you became self-sufficient, pushed me away?

2. I retreated when you distanced me, and you discarded me,
Yet I had been a neighbor when you wanted me.

3. So if you are not just, I have patience for grit,
And I closed my eyes to your hurt for a time.

4. I made good or evil however you might yield to me,
Yet you made my evil good and my good evil.

5. I was content with my poverty: you live wealthy!
For my little suffices me from your abundance.

6. And after, do not be led astray by wealth,
Perhaps He who enriched you beyond me will enrich me.

7. True honor is only the honor of one honored through piety,
True merit is only the merit of one meriting through religion.

8. In God is that which enriches; in God is that which suffices.
In patience over what eluded me is that which consoles me.

9. In my resignation to God and acceptance,
When misfortune befalls me, is that which cheers me.

10. It suffices me, for I do not want for a companion
Anything ugly, nor care for what does not concern me.

11. I see that I should not vie with an unjust person,
And I am pleased with all truth from one who does not please me.