Nr. 202
Calcutta nr. 202 *
Ouseley MS 140 - 75
I drink wine, and every one drinks who like me is worthy of it;
my wine-drinking is but a small thing to Him;
God knew, on the Day of Creation, that I should drink wine;
if I do not drink wine, God's knowledge was ignorance.
Heron-Allen 1899 - 61
I drink wine, and everyone drinks who, like me, is worthy of it;
My wine-drinking is but a small thing to Him;
God knew on the Day of Creation, that I should drink wine;
If I do not drink wine God's knowledge would be ignorance.
Nicolas 1867 - 182
Oui, je bois du vin, et quiconque comme moi est clairvoyant trouvera que cet acte est insignifiant aux yeux de la Divinité. De toute éternité Dieu a su que je boirais du vin. Si je n'en buvais pas, sa prescience serait pure ignorance.
Payne 1898 - 355
Wine I drink and like me who a child of the light is,
His drinking of wine but a straw in God's sight is:
From Eternity God my winebibbing foreknoweth:
If I drink not, His prescience made ign'rance outright is.
Thompson 1906 - 21
I drink my wine, for men like me of sense
In God's sight 'tis of little consequence;
He knew it at the first, if I drink not
Sheer ignorance would be God's prescience!
Whinfield 1883 - 197
True I drink wine, like every man of sense,
For I know Allah will not take offense;
Before time was, He know that I should drink,
And who am I to thwart His prescience?