21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 70
وَاَرَادُوا بِه۪ كَيْداً فَجَعَلْنَاهُمُ الْاَخْسَر۪ينَۚ
Waaradoo bihi kaydan fajaAAalnahumual-akhsareen
They desired to trap him but We made them the losers.
- Progressive Muslims
And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers.
- Shabbir Ahmed
And whereas they schemed against him, We made them the true losers. (They failed to value a man of his stature).
- Sam Gerrans
And they desired a plan for him, but We made them the greatest losers,
- The Monotheist Group
Andthey wanted to plan against him, but We made them the losers.
- Edip-Layth
They wanted to harm him, but We made them the losers.
- Aisha Bewley
They desired to trap him but We made them the losers.
- Rashad Khalifa
Thus, they schemed against him, but we made them the losers.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
They wished to entrap him, but We made them greater losers.
- Sahih International
And they intended for him harm, but We made them the greatest losers.
- Muhammad Asad
and whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We caused them to suffer the greatest loss:
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And they wished to set a snare for him, but We made them the greater losers.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
So conditioned, they thought of contriving against him, but We made them the losers who lost the most.
- Bijan Moeinian
They wanted to harm hi, but I made them to look like fools.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And they wanted to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Then they sought a stratagem against him: but We made them the ones that lost most!
- Mustafa Khattab
They had sought to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
- Taqi Usmani
And they intended to harm him, but We made them the worst losers.
- Abdul Haleem
They planned to harm him, but We made them suffer the greatest loss.
- Arthur John Arberry
They desired to outwit him; so We made them the worse losers,
- E. Henry Palmer
They desired to plot against him, but we made them the losers.
- Hamid S. Aziz
We said, "O fire! Be you cool and a safety for Abraham!"
- Mahmoud Ghali
And they would (devise) a plot against him; yet We made them the greatest losers.
- George Sale
And they sought to lay a plot against him: But We caused them to be the sufferers.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And then they tried a scheme against him: But We made them the ones who lost most!
- Amatul Rahman Omar
They intended a mistreatment of him, but We made them the worst losers (and they could not carry out their evil design of burning him).
- Ali Quli Qarai
They sought to outmaneuver him, but We made them the biggest losers.