شَرُّ الرِّجال الغادر

بِصَحبه المماكر

The worst of men is the betrayer

With his deceptive companion

أَصعب ما تكابد

صُحبة مَن يُعاند

The hardest to endure

Is the company of one who opposes

يجهد في مَساءتك

للأمن مِن إِساءتك

He makes effort to harm you

To be safe from your harm

يَرضى بشر غَيركا

تَسخطاً بِخَيركا

He is pleased with others' evil

Out of spite for your good

وَيحقر الإِكراما

وَيكفر الأَنعاما

And scorns favors

And disbelieves blessings

ترضيه وَهوَ ساخِط

تُدنيه وَهوَ شاحِط

You please him yet he's discontent

You draw near him yet he distances

قاس عَلَيك فَظ

ما لَكَ منهُ حَظ

Harsh and rude toward you

You have no share with him

كَالشَّمع في كُلِّ يَد

يَدور مثل المرود

Like a candle in every hand

Spinning like a spindle

وَهوَ عَلَيك صَخره

قاسية بَل زُبرَه

And to you he's a boulder

Hard, nay rigid

فَاِرتابَت الغَزاله

مِنها بِذي المَقاله

So the gazelle doubted

The one with the saying

تَقول من عَنيت

بِقُبح ما حَكيت

Saying, who did you intend

With the ugliness you told

قالَت عَنيت بعلي

لأن قَلبي يغلي

She said, I meant my husband

For my heart boils