إِنّي أُكاثِرُ أَعدائي مُغالَطَةً

إِنّي أُكاثِرُ أَعدائي مُغالَطَةً

وَفي الحَشا لَهَبٌ مِن غَيظِمِم ضَرَمٌ

وَفي الحَشا لَهَبٌ مِن غَيظِمِم ضَرَمٌ

Indeed, I vie with my enemies in numbers through deception.

I make my enemies many falsehoods

And in my breast a flame blazes from anger at them [uncertain reading].

And in my mind is a flame of anger, inflamed

وَلَجَّ في العَذلِ أَقوامٌ مَقَتُّهُمُ

وَلَجَّ في العَذلِ أَقوامٌ مَقَتُّهُمُ

كَأَنَّ في أُذُني عَن عَذلِهِم صَمَمُ

كَأَنَّ في أُذُني عَن عَذلِهِم صَمَمُ

And people I loathed persisted in reproach,

Some have persisted in slander, much to my hatred

as though my ear were deaf to their reproach.

As if deafness itself stops my ears to their slander