Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But then they relapsed into their former way of thinking and said: “Thou knowest very well that these [idols] cannot speak!”
Arthur John Arberry
Then they were utterly put to confusion saying, 'Very well indeed thou knowest these do not speak.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Then were they confounded with shame: (they said), "Thou knowest full well that these (idols) do not speak!"
Arabic
ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمۡ لَقَدۡ عَلِمۡتَ مَا هَـٰۤؤُلَاۤءِ یَنطِقُونَ ٦٥
Transliteration (2021)
thumma nukisū ʿalā ruūsihim laqad ʿalim'ta mā hāulāi yanṭiqūn