1 This Child, Old Age! shall grow to meet thee only: none of the hundred other deaths shall harm him. From trouble caused by friends let God the Friend guard him, as a kind mother guards the son she nurses.

2 May God the Friend, the All-Seeing, the foe-destroyer, accordant, grant him death in course of nature! Thus God, skilled in high statutes, ordaineth all things.

3 Thou art the Lord of all terrestrial cattle, of cattle born and to be born hereafter. Let not breath drawn or breath emitted fail him. Let not his friends, let not his foemen slay him.

4 Let God decree for thee death in course of nature, that thou mayst live on the bosom of the earth, guarded, a hundred winters, through thy respirations.

5 Lead him to life, O God, and to splendour, this dear child, O Lord of Law, O Friend! Give him protection as a mother; that his be life of long duration!