1. If the trusted friend betrays you,
Then take comfort from the abundance of goodness that awaits

2. The world may turn its back on you,
Though to some you're still a rising star

3. So do not grieve, for life is treachery
With ways and means that are well known

4. Perhaps the tongue betrays the heart
And blood surging between ribs betrays

5. Radiance betrays the eye, light betrays
The tongue betrays speech, lips betray speech

6. This soul accompanies this body in deceit
Together two days, then parts

7. Abandoning it as if it never lived within
So its children and loved ones deny it

8. Take comfort, some people are of little worth
Why do you agonize over what is lost?

9. You grieve for a covenant now broken
A succession of lost affection and friendship

10. Most of mankind's lives are lost
Wasted away, generations lost in waste

11. Rise above, do not reproach what is beneath you
As water and rock tower above the valley

12. If he is free, it is admission of his guilt
If enslaved, leave him, he flees still

13. What more can you expect after his disgrace?
With which he sought to rend what you have mended

14. This was not his first betrayal
Many precedents came before this one

15. I endured him for years, increasing his defiance
You cannot trust he will not repeat his trespass

16. Why endure him? One like me should be true
And sincere to one like you

17. Why do you despair when the sky is bright?
This is a beautiful autumn and gardens in bloom

18. Birds sing joyfully on the branches
Flowers, fruits, a grove with lofty trees

19. You are healthy, prestigious and comfortable
Those you love are near and approving

20. Know this rupture heralds that goodness
Will surely pour upon you abundantly