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تا که مردانی که خود سنگین‌دلند ** از حسد تا در کدامین منزلند
- So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.
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گر نکردی شرع افسونی لطیف ** بر دریدی هر کسی جسم حریف 1210
- If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces.
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شرع بهر دفع شر رایی زند ** دیو را در شیشه‌ی حجت کند
- The Law makes a plan for repelling evil: it puts the demon into the bottle of (legal) proof—
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از گواه و از یمین و از نکول ** تا به شیشه در رود دیو فضول
- Witness and oath and shrinking (from the oath)—till (at last) the insolent demon goes into the bottle (prison).
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مثل میزانی که خشنودی دو ضد ** جمع می‌آید یقین در هزل و جد
- (The Law is) like the balance whereby the two adversaries are surely united in contentment, (whether) in jest or earnest.
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شرع چون کیله و ترازو دان یقین ** که بدو خصمان رهند از جنگ و کین
- Know for sure that the Law is like the measure and scales by means of which the litigants are saved from wrangling and enmity.
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گر ترازو نبود آن خصم از جدال ** کی رهد از وهم حیف و احتیال 1215
- If there be no pair of scales, how shall the litigant escape from disputing when he suspects fraud and deceit?
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پس درین مردار زشت بی‌وفا ** این همه رشکست و خصمست و جفا
- (If), then, there is all this jealousy and litigation and injustice in respect of this foul faithless carcase,
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پس در اقبال و دولت چون بود ** چون شود جنی و انسی در حسد
- How, then, must it be when genies and men become envious in respect of that fortune and felicity (hereafter)?
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آن شیاطین خود حسود کهنه‌اند ** یک زمان از ره‌زنی خالی نه‌اند
- Truly those devils are envious of old: never for a moment do they cease from waylaying;