ולב נבוב [Velev Navuv] [English translation]

And heart’s hollow and wisdom is blocked;

the body apparent but soul obscured:

those who wake in the world for gain come to corruption.

On earth a man rejoices in nothing. . . .

The servant, soon, will slaughter his master,

the handmaidens turn on their mistress and queen;

a daughter will rise—against her own mother,

a son—against his father’s name.

My eye in the world dismisses

what others most love,

and all is labor,

a plowing for worms.

Slime—to slime returns.

Soul—ascends to soul.