1. Your father is your father while you're his son,
So wretched is the son and the father is wretched.

2. And your mother is a black bondwoman,
Her fingers seem like woodlice.

3. Your father sleeps with her as a husband,
Like a fox that crept into a crevice.

4. I'm not surprised by you, son of a worthless woman,
But I'm surprised by my own kin!

5. When they hear him babble, they answer him,
Josephs that bleat when beaten!

6. You see the he-goats among them like stallions—
Nay, the he-goat among them is the noblest!

7. So forbid them to gamble with knucklebones
And call them to a mare they can ride.