1. O knowledge, I did not seek you for wrongdoing,

    Nor so that I might bow to wealth,

  2. Nor so that any man's hand might rise

    Above mine through a trifling kindness.

  3. So, for your sake, O knowledge, I renounced wealth

    And prestige through forbidding and commanding.

  4. Nor did I sully my honor through you with what

    Is taken as payment for spreading you.

  5. I shunned a man's door, 'a voice for you' [wording unclear],

    A man made a chief 'among the prophet of the age' [wording unclear].

Sol 6.1