1. We shed our tears in mourning for the fortieth day
If crying could benefit, we would have cried blood

2. I had hoped this year's season a meeting place
For my family, but the meeting place became a funeral

3. Oh how I wish we were scattered factions on earth
And that you were the one alive and well among them

4. An uncle who lived between his brother's sons
Kinder to them than their parents and more merciful

5. I alone took care of those I adopted from them
So I was the highest father and I was the teacher

6. No mother's sadness over a son, no father's
Is greater than my sadness over you or more intense

7. Oh how I wish the one who took you in the prime of youth
Had taken your aged, crumbling uncle instead

8. Thirty years or thirty hours
That took the destined share from the lifespan

9. The brother moved away from his brothers and did not return
I never got used to him being away from them for two days

10. It hurts me today that you are gone
And that you did not come to bid me farewell

11. Your life among us, its events rushed it away
No life was more precious or honorable

12. And had it not been for my complaints of hearing and seeing
And my unease with them, I would not have stopped speaking

13. He who was hoping for health and safety
I fear I will be well and unharmed

14. If sorrows wanted to leave me, I sought them
It is as if I have become infatuated with sorrows

15. If I had a choice, I would be, for your lifetime
Adding to my lifetime that complements it

16. I do not ask about war or peace
Or where the people are after you among them

17. It is no use to me, after those I have lost
Of family, if the king gave me spoils