1. Does God approve that a man like me should be humiliated?
Of no use to me is my intellect, nor my abundant virtue.

2. When I saw ignorance bring happiness to the ignorant,
I wished in despair that I could return to ignorance.

3. I have wronged myself through my excessive pride,
As eyes are marred by too much kohl.

4. May you suffer adversity, O world! Why do you show me
A wretch in wealth and a fool in poverty?

5. The ignorant is raised up and the wise put down,
The generous is deprived while the miser is enriched.