Translations
for you wish to be in control of things which you cannot, you wish for things that belong to others to be your own.Elizabeth Carter (c.1750)
for you wish things to be in your power which are not so; and what belongs to others to be your own.Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1890)
for you would have the things which are not in your power to be in your power, and the things which belong to others to be yours.George Long (1890)
for that means that you want what is not in your control to be in your control, and what is not your own to be yours.Percy Ewing Matheson (1916)