ناجوامردا چه کردم من ترا ** که به پیش اژدها بردی مرا

Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?

موجب کین تو با جانم چه بود ** غیر خبث جوهر تو ای عنود

What but the malignity of your nature was the cause of your enmity to my life, O perverse one?”—

هم‌چو کزدم کو گزد پای فتی ** نارسیده از وی او را زحمتی

Like the scorpion, which bites a man's foot though no inconvenience has come to it from him,

یا چو دیوی کو عدوی جان ماست ** نارسیده زحمتش از ما و کاست

Or like the Devil who is the enemy of our souls, though no inconvenience or injury has befallen him from us;

بلک طبعا خصم جان آدمیست ** از هلاک آدمی در خرمیست 2605

Nay, but he is naturally the adversary of the human soul and rejoices at the destruction of Man;

از پی هر آدمی او نسکلد ** خو و طبع زشت خود او کی هلد

He never breaks off his pursuit of any human being: how should he abandon his wicked disposition and nature?

زانک خبث ذات او بی‌موجبی ** هست سوی ظلم و عدوان جاذبی

For, without any cause, his essential malignity pulls him on to (commit) injustice and tyranny.

هر زمان خواند ترا تا خرگهی ** که در اندازد ترا اندر چهی

He continually invites thee to a spacious tent in order that he may cast thee into a pit,

که فلان جا حوض آبست و عیون ** تا در اندازد به حوضت سرنگون

Saying, “In such and such a place there is a tank of water and (many) fountains,” that he may cast thee headlong into the tank.

آدمی را با همه وحی و نظر ** اندر افکند آن لعین در شور و شر 2610

That accursed one caused an Adam, notwithstanding all his inspiration and insight, to fall into woe and bane,