The power that holds the sky's majesty wins our worship.
Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.
Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.