In my own hatred I will not bite my tail,
Especially if I am a serpent.
The enraged one eats himself first,
So it is laid down in nature.

Therefore the snake mostly slithers by,
Does not sting everyone who would kill it
(Wise, the viper, knows this perfectly)…
I go around enemies, so I live longer.

Old, yet I still attend school,
I drink the poison of discontents as medicine,
I continue to polish myself in a circle,
I wear away, I help the good.