English: Otherwise, why should I nourish you while you sicken me?
Yoruba: Bí kò bá rí bẹ́ẹ̀, kí ló dé tí n ó máa bọ́ ọ nígbà tí ìwọ ń sọ mí di aláìsàn?
English: I carry you while you belittle me?
Yoruba: Mo gbé ọ nígbà tí ìwọ ń fojú kéré mí?
English: I work for you while you wound me?
Yoruba: Mo ṣiṣẹ́ fún ọ nígbà tí ìwọ ń pa mí lára?
English: I come to you while you dismiss me?
Yoruba: Mo wá sí ọ̀dọ̀ rẹ nígbà tí ìwọ ń lé mi?
English: How can justice be attained through oppression?
Yoruba: Báwo ni a ṣe lè rí ìdájọ́ òdodo nípasẹ̀ ìnilára?
English: How can the sun shine through clouds?
Yoruba: Báwo ni òòrùn ṣe lè tàn láàrín àwọsánmà?
English: When is love accompanied by tyranny?
Yoruba: Nígbà wo ni ìfẹ́ máa ń bá ìjọba aládé-ìkà rìn?
English: Which free person accepts humiliation?
Yoruba: Ẹni tó ní òmìnira wo ló fẹ́ràn àbùkù?
English: By Allah, your father spoke well when he said:
Yoruba: Mo fi Ọlọ́hun búra, bàbá rẹ sọ̀rọ̀ dáadáa nígbà tí ó wí pé:
English: I repaid one who attached his love to me
Yoruba: Mo san ẹ̀san padà fún ẹni tó so ìfẹ́ rẹ̀ mọ́ mi