Thou come to grief, and bring to wreck thy every plan.
The tales of ‘Ād[360] and Thamūd[361] have the moral clear,
That saints of God, and righteous men, are held more dear.80
Those signs, and swift destruction overwhelming them,
Proclaim aloud the power that saints around does hem.
As brutes are slain that man may live a life of ease,
So men are slaughtered when they sin ’gainst God’s decrees.
For, what is wisdom? ’Tis th’ omniscience divine.
Man’s wisdom is but folly, set against that mine.
The brutes are timid, shun man’s presence everywhere;