Translations
I know what it is to live with little, and I know what it is to live with plenty. In every situation and in all things I have been initiated into the mystery — of being full and of going hungry, of having abundance and of being in need.
I know what it is to be brought low, and I know what it is to abound. In all things and in every circumstance I have been initiated into the secret — both to be full and to go hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. In any and every situation I have learned the secret of being filled and being hungry, of having plenty and having need.

