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Ali Quli Qara'i
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Those who were before them [also] said that, but what they used to earn did not avail them.
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Pickthal
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Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;
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Shakir
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Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.
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Yusufali
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Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.
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