The Struggle is continued in the midst of Reverses.

1 The lord of his clan will pray in his devotions, with his labouring villagers, and his trusted peers, and his fellow devil-worshippers. But in my mind is the friendship of the Wise Lord, the Great Creator, the Living Lord; and Thy heralds, O Wise Lord, may we be; may we hold back those who hate and who offend Thee!

2 To these God, the Wise Lord, answered, ruling as He does through His Good Mind within their souls; He replied from His Sovereign Power, our good friend as He is through His surpassing Righteousness: We have accepted your good and bountiful piety, and we have chosen it; it shall be Ours!

3 But you, O ye devils, are all a seed from the Evil Mind. He who offers worship to you the most is of the Lie, and he is a child of perversion. In advance are your deceits whereby ye are famed in the sevenfold earth!

4 For ye are confusing our thoughts, whereby men, giving forth the worst deeds, will speak as beloved of the devils, forsaken by the Good Mind, far astray from the understanding of the Great Creator, the Living Lord, and far astray from His Righteousness!

5 Therefore ye would beguile mankind of happy life upon earth and of immortality beyond it, since Satan has ruled you with his evil mind. Yea, he has ruled you, ye who are of the devils, and with an evil word unto action, as his ruler governs the wicked!

6 Full of crime, your leader has desired to destroy us, wherefore he is famed, and his doctrine is declared; but if this be so of these, then in the same manner, O Wise Lord, Thou possessest the true teachings in Thy knowledge. And in Thy kingdom and Thy Righteous Order I will establish Thy precepts in Thy name.

7 Among these wretched beings this their leader knows not that those things which are declared as victorious by his allies are bound together for the smiting; yea, those things by which he was famed as victorious by his blade of glittering iron. But the utter destruction of those things Thou, O Wise Lord, knowest most surely!

8 Of these wretched beings was Yima, son of Vivanghvant, famed to be; he who, desiring to content our men, transgressed the bounds in eating the flesh of the Kine. But from such as these, O Wise Lord, in Thy discerning discrimination, am I to be seen as distinct.