1. How long will you ride with pride while death awaits you?
Do you think that death will mistake your name?

2. Or do you not reckon it is imposed upon you?
Yes, by your Lord, it is certainly imposed.

3. I have seen death lurking,
pouncing on the corpses of kings at times, at others writhing in agony.

4. O intimate with rulers, believing in them -
it will soon strip them bare in death and scatter them around.

5. I can see you among them, weak in strength
shriveling up between them, trying to ingratiate yourself.

6. I can see you among them, your heart throbbing with fear of death
as it flounders in its depths.

7. I can see you in a shroud, wrapped up
in two pieces of cloth, embalmed.

8. Not in two pieces like my pieces full of breath of life -
nor is my shroud sewn together.