(and what will show you what is the nightly visitor?

It is the brilliant star):

there is a guard over every soul.

So let man consider from what he was created.

He was created from an effusing fluid

which issues from between the loins and the breast-bones.

Indeed He is able to bring him back [after death],

on the day when the secrets are examined

and he shall have neither power nor helper.

By the resurgent heaven,

and by the furrowed earth:

it is indeed a conclusive discourse,

and not a jest.

Indeed they are devising a stratagem,

and I [too] am devising a plan.