Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Said they: "Surely, if the wolf were to devour him notwithstanding that we are so many-then, behold, we ought ourselves to perish!"
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'If the wolf eats him, and we a band, then are we losers!
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!"
Arabic
قَالُوا۟ لَىِٕنۡ أَكَلَهُ ٱلذِّئۡبُ وَنَحۡنُ عُصۡبَةٌ إِنَّاۤ إِذࣰا لَّخَـٰسِرُونَ ١٤
Transliteration (2021)
qālū la-in akalahu l-dhi'bu wanaḥnu ʿuṣ'batun innā idhan lakhāsirūn