Sol 6

  1. After one wife, he married three more.

    And said to his bride, “My quarter is enough for you.”

  2. He pleases her if she is content with mere sustenance,

    And stones her if she inclines toward a follower.

  3. And whoever has joined two wives has not sought

    The path of justice in five and a quarter.

  4. Your mind, O man of seventy, is feeble;

    At your games, you are like a child of seven.

  5. You have done wrong, and we are all guilty wrongdoers;

    Your bent for betrayal is like mine.

  6. It delights you that another’s dwelling stands empty

    When you have been granted a family and a home.

  7. Were it not for that, no one would carry out to shoot

    A hunter’s arrows and bows of nabʿ wood.

Sol 6