Qarib: Nor did We make them bodies that ate no food, nor were they immortal.
Sarwar: We had not made them such bodies that would not eat any food nor were they immortal.
Shakir: And We did not make them bodies not eating the food, and they were not to abide (forever)
Pickthall: We gave them not bodies that would not eat food, nor were they immortals.
Yusufali: Nor did We give them bodies that ate no food, nor were they exempt from death.

Qarib: Then We were true to the promise, We saved them together with those whom We willed, and destroyed the transgressors.
Sarwar: Our promise to them came true and We saved them and those whom We wanted, but destroyed the unjust people.
Shakir: Then We made Our promise good to them, so We delivered them and those whom We pleased, and We destroyed the ex
Pickthall: Then we fulfilled the promise unto them. So we delivered them and whom We would, and We destroyed the prodigals.
Yusufali: In the end We fulfilled to them Our Promise, and We saved them and those whom We pleased, but We destroyed those who transgressed beyond bounds.

Qarib: Now, We have sent down to you a Book in which is your Remembrance. Will you not understand?
Sarwar: We have sent a Book, (the Quran), which is an honor for you. Will you then not understand?
Shakir: Certainly We have revealed to you a Book in which is your good remembrance; what! do you not then understand?
Pickthall: Now We have revealed unto you a Scripture wherein is your Reminder. Have ye then no sense?
Yusufali: We have revealed for you (O men!) a book in which is a Message for you: will ye not then understand?

Qarib: How many harmdoing villages have We shattered and replaced them with another nation.
Sarwar: How many unjust towns did We destroy and replace them with other nations?
Shakir: And how many a town which was iniquitous did We demolish, and We raised up after it another people!
Pickthall: How many a community that dealt unjustly have We shattered, and raised up after them another folk!
Yusufali: How many were the populations We utterly destroyed because of their iniquities, setting up in their places other peoples?

Qarib: And when they felt Our Might they fled from it.
Sarwar: When they found Our torment approaching them they started to run away from the town.
Shakir: So when they felt Our punishment, lo! they began to fly
Pickthall: And, when they felt Our might, behold them fleeing from it!
Yusufali: Yet, when they felt Our Punishment (coming), behold, they (tried to) flee from it.

Qarib: 'Do not run away. Return to your luxury that you rejoiced in, and your homes in order that you be questioned! '
Sarwar: We told them, "Do not run away. Come back to your luxuries and your houses so that you can be questioned".
Shakir: Do not fly (now) and come back to what you were made to lead easy lives in and to your dwellings, haply you will be questioned
Pickthall: (But it was said unto them): Flee not, but return to that (existence) which emasculated you and to your dwellings, that ye may be questioned.
Yusufali: Flee not, but return to the good things of this life which were given you, and to your homes in order that ye may be called to account.

Qarib: They said: 'Alas for us we were harmdoers! '
Sarwar: They said, "Woe to us! We have been unjust".
Shakir: They said: O woe to us! surely we were unjust
Pickthall: They cried: Alas for us! we were wrong-doers.
Yusufali: They said: "Ah! woe to us! We were indeed wrong-doers!"

Qarib: And this they did not stop crying out until We made them stubble, silent, and still.
Sarwar: Such was what they continued to say until We mowed them down and made them completely extinct.
Shakir: And this ceased not to be their cry till We made them cut
Pickthall: And this their crying ceased not till We made them as reaped corn, extinct.
Yusufali: And that cry of theirs ceased not, till We made them as a field that is mown, as ashes silent and quenched.

Qarib: It was not in play that We created the heavens and the earth and all that lies between them.
Sarwar: We did not create the heavens and the earth just for fun.
Shakir: And We did not create the heaven and the earth and what is between them for sport
Pickthall: We created not the heaven and the earth and all that is between them in play.
Yusufali: Not for (idle) sport did We create the heavens and the earth and all that is between!

Qarib: Had We wished to take to Us an amusement We would have taken it to Us from Ours had We done so.
Sarwar: Had We wanted to play games, We could have certainly done so with things at hand.
Shakir: Had We wished to make a diversion, We would have made it from before Ourselves: by no means would We do (it)
Pickthall: If We had wished to find a pastime, We could have found it in Our presence - if We ever did.
Yusufali: If it had been Our wish to take (just) a pastime, We should surely have taken it from the things nearest to Us, if We would do (such a thing)!