1. I saw people hurrying about
Measuring the old against the new

2. If you talk to them of good
They soon grow weary

3. So make your speech as short as you can
The hyena's fangs never blunted

4. Nor the obese ever refrain from excess
Take them as they come and desire

5. Do not hope to renew the wretched
They have exhausted all foulness

6. So beware of that insidious disease
Corruption pleased them and was of them

7. Like the stench from their armpits
So your aid will not avail

8. You have no helper for your affliction
Like a ravished apple

9. Cursed be the progeny of the heir
Neither it nor they deserved to exist

10. This brood from Lot and debauched Seth
How can sweet fruit come from a branch

11. When that branch stems from a rotten trunk?
Will not people perish, drowning in flames and torrents

12. Through apples, while atrocity and outrage are allowed
In gardens of polluted trees?

13. When the wombs bore the spawn of evil
No milk ran from withered dugs

14. Most marriages are lechery
No wonder the offspring are like wolves

15. Watch the recklessly disobedient tyrants
Mocking the funeral wailer

16. Walk alone in virtue
For doom awaits the licentious mob

17. Hear no scream or wailing
How wretched is the savior of one pleading for aid

18. I saw people as lions or donkeys
So be among the asses, not the lions