"Now your dogs and swine eat the food of the people, but you do not take any restrictive measures; there are people dead from famine on the roads, but you do not issue people grain of your granaries. When people die, you say, ‘It is not me, but the famine year that is to blame for it.’

Your dogs and swine eat the food of men, and you do not make any restrictive arrangements. There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, "It is pot owing to me; it is owing to the year."

Dogs and sows eat man’s food, and no one knows what to do; starved bodies lie by the roadside, and no grain is given out. When a man dies, to say, "It was not I, but the year"；

"But you don't think about tomorrow when people are feeding surplus grain to pigs and dogs. So when people are starving to death in the streets, you don't think about emp­tying storehouses to feed them. People die, and you say It’s not my fault,it' the harvest.

The dogs and swine eat the people's food, and you know not how to prevent them. The people are dying of hunger on the roads, and you do not issue supplies for their relief. When the psople die, you say it is not my fault, but that of the season.