1. You have the strength to bear burdens for your mother,
Yet you lack the strength to bear your own piety.

2. How deeply you have delved into self-conceit,
Cloaked in ignorance and vain hopes far worse than it.

3. Whoever desires safety tomorrow from what he reaps today
Should not wear a garment of heedlessness in his time.

4. I became disinterested in asceticism, fooled by the transience
Of its external features, and instead held onto greed and hopes.

5. Had I turned away from character faults and deafened myself
To the people's knowledge and deeds, I'd have found perfection.

6. O shepherd of wealth and family, striving
To avert harm, there is room for the flock and the strays.

7. Happy is he who makes his worldly duties subordinate
To his faith, decreasing them to attain complete satisfaction.

8. When the drunkard contemplates the agony of the sinners tomorrow,
He will fear neither intoxication, nor sin, nor anguish.