דרך הישר [Derekh Hayashar] [English translation]

The world according to its custom worries1

About prices

About days

Already there is no place for worry

On the other hand …

The world from its custom deviates

Beginning is wisdom; ending is cunningness2

Already there is no place for worry

It's all a matter of viewpoint

And the truth

How could we not turn through it3

It is the same one truth

What else: the straight path

Is also The Righteous Path

How could we not turn through it?

A man in his wisdom thinks

That he is able

That he is everything

Already there is no place for anyone

On the other hand …

A man in his faith grasps

In the nights and in the days

For a moment of mercy

Even one moment

It's all a matter of patience

And the truth

How could we not turn through it?

It is the same one truth

What else: the straight path

Is also The Righteous Path

How could we not turn through it?

1. A play on the Hebrew phrase: "עולם כמנהגו נוהג" = "The world follows its course". For an example, see (www.sefaria.org/Avodah_Zarah.54b.14)2. See Psalms 111:10 (www.sefaria.org/Psalms.111.10)3. The Torah and study it continuously and obsessively. See Ethics of the Fathers 5:22 (www.sefaria.org/Pirkei_Avot.5.22)