1. You, my soul, are foremost in recklessness and lack of wisdom
You neither keep secrets nor act with restraint

2. Though my anguished heart has shown you sincere affection
Why do you whisper treachery in secrecy?

3. You are an evil in my core - may your fate
Be a terrible death tomorrow

4. If your destiny were in my hands
I would increase your humiliation and disgrace, my soul

5. For if not for my dignity and patience
You would have left me with shame and insults

6. You make me a man whose heart is torn by passion
Are you not overflowing with jealousy beyond propriety?

7. Can the pleasures whose effects remain desirable
When you, through life, have indulged every whim?

8. God damn the souls! For they
Cast us into every misery

9. It is as if we have two souls - one noble
And the other, harmful to that noble one

10. So one soul drives us towards good and piety
While the other drives us perforce towards evil

11. Two opposites in one feeble body
If they come together, disaster strikes instantly

12. I was oblivious to my nature, but when I threw it knowledge
Or increased in knowledge, confusion and ignorance grew