Why were there not, out of the generations that passed away before you, righteous men who would forbid others from causing corruption on the earth? And if such were there, they were only a few whom We had saved from those generations, or else the wrong-doers kept pursuing the ease and comfort which had been conferred upon them, thus losing themselves in sinfulness.
جا ئه‌وه بۆ له‌ناو خه‌ڵکی زه‌مانی پێش ئێوه‌دا که‌سانی ژیرو دیندار نه‌بوو، که به‌رگریان له خراپه‌و تاوان بکردایه له زه‌ویدا، مه‌گه‌ر که‌مێك نه‌بێت له‌وانه‌ی که ڕزگارمان کردن لێیان، چونکه زۆربه‌یان له سنووری فه‌رمانی خوا ده‌رچوون و شوێن ڕابواردنی دنیاو ئاره‌زوو که‌وتن، ئیتر به‌و کرده‌وه ناشیرینه‌یان چوونه ڕیزی تاوانبارو خراپکارانه‌وه‌.