1. Did I not ward off your enemy from you when you were helpless
With my well-forged sword until its hilt was smashed?

2. If I stir up Ka'b or the dogs, verily both are
In their entirety for Al-Numayri ever bountiful.

3. Both the dogs and Ka'b are two lofty peaks that met
In two glories that no couple in privacy has attained.

4. When cowardice overcomes a man to endure it,
Then the son of the camel herder will carry it from him

5. As his father carried it from the herder Ubayd who conveyed it.
Perhaps the son of the camel herder thinks that if

6. Good fortune swaddles him cozily occupation distracts him.
I prohibited the son of the camel herder from me yet he did not

7. Stop insisting until I released his ropes.
So say to the son of the camel herder: Do you have a coat of mail

8. To protect you if my rain pours on you heavily?
My rain clouds, if they rain upon your eyes, will make

9. The crown of your head and bottom unlike.
It makes wretched the life of Al-'Amri then he perishes

10. And his cowardice refuses to leave him.