- The great river (too) is (like) a tent, wherein is life for the duck, but death for crows.
- هست دریا خیمه‌ای در وی حیات ** بط را لیکن کلاغان را ممات
- Venom also is the snake's food and provision, (but) its venom is anguish and death to others. 3295
- زهر باشد مار را هم قوت و برگ ** غیر او را زهر او دردست و مرگ
- The form of every blessing and affliction is a Hell to this one, a Paradise to that one.
- صورت هر نعمتی و محنتی ** هست این را دوزخ آن را جنتی
- Therefore (though) ye see all bodies and things, and there is food and poison in them (all)—ye see (it) not.
- پس همه اجسام و اشیا تبصرون ** واندرو قوتست و سم لاتبصرون
- Every body resembles a bowl or a pot, wherein is both food and a (cause of) heart-burning.
- هست هر جسمی چو کاسه و کوزه‌ای ** اندرو هم قوت و هم دلسوزه‌ای
- The bowl is visible, the plenty (contained) in it is hidden: (only) he who tastes it (the contents) knows what he is eating or drinking from it.
- کاسه پیدا اندرو پنهان رغد ** طاعمش داند کزان چه می‌خورد
- The form of Joseph was like a beauteous cup: from it his father drank a hundred exhilarating wines. 3300
- صورت یوسف چو جامی بود خوب ** زان پدر می‌خورد صد باده‌ی طروب
- Again, to his brethren (the draught they took) from it was poisoned water which was increasing in them anger and hatred.
- باز اخوان را از آن زهراب بود ** کان دریشان خشم و کینه می‌فزود
- Again, to Zalíkhá (the draught she took) from it was (sweet as) sugar: she was quaffing a different opiate from (the hand of) Love.
- باز از وی مر زلیخا را سکر ** می‌کشید از عشق افیونی دگر
- The nutriment which came from Joseph to that fair one was other than that which came to Jacob.
- غیر آنچ بود مر یعقوب را ** بود از یوسف غذا آن خوب را