Az-Zumar 39:50
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قَدْ قَالَهَا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ
Qad qalaha allatheenamin qablihim fama aghna AAanhum ma kanooyaksiboon
"Those before them had already said it, but they were not availed by what they used to earn."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"Those who lived before them said the same. What they did was of no use to them;"
Pickthall (classic)+
"Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;"
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them."