If you ask him for aught, he shows you empty
hands; he fills the palms of those who run
from him. Do we not know his secret? We
boiled in vain when we knew it not. If we speak
good words to him, he grows angry; if we speak
harshly to him, he runs after us. Tuka says, Here
our speech and acts yield opposite effects.
hands; he fills the palms of those who run
from him. Do we not know his secret? We
boiled in vain when we knew it not. If we speak
good words to him, he grows angry; if we speak
harshly to him, he runs after us. Tuka says, Here
our speech and acts yield opposite effects.