1. I care little for night or day,
Though both are ever pressing me on.

2. My life rests not on respecting nights,
Nor the passage of hours with events.

3. O brother, how the ends misled us
In acquiring furnishings, one after another!

4. Would that I knew, when your name
Is moaned by the wailing women,

5. Would that I knew how you lie,
Beneath a rubble heaped over you.

6. Would that I knew, what's become of you
In the Hereafter, after three days!

7. One day will come when a man's wealth
Will be foremost for his heir.

8. Indeed, he who departs from what he hoarded
Is little troubled by meager inheritance.

9. O you who calls on me for help, suffice you
God as the helper of men in need!

10. By my life, after many a day of despair
God sends relief thereafter!