Nor can there be any cause for reproach against those who, when they came to you asking for mounts to go to the battlefront, and when you said that you had no mounts for them, they went back, their eyes overflowing with tears, grieving that they had no resources to enable them to take part in fighting.
またあなたに（戦のための）乗り物を求めて来たとき，あなたが「わたしにはあなたがたに提供する乗り物がない。」と告げると，両目に涙をたたえて（馬などを購入する）資金のないことを悲しんで帰っていく人びと（も非難される筋はない）。