So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
And Zeus will destroy this race of mortal men too, when they, at their birth, have grey hair on their temples.
He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.
In the morning of like, work; in the midday, give counsel; in the evening, pray.
Far best is he who is himself all-wise, and he, too, good who listens to wise words; But whoso is not wise or lays to hear another's wisdom is a useless man.