وَمَثَلُ كَلِمَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ كَشَجَرَةٍ خَبِيثَةٍ ٱجْتُثَّتْ مِن فَوْقِ ٱلْأَرْضِ مَا لَهَا مِن قَرَارٍ 
  Wamathalu kalimatin khabeethatin kashajaratin khabeethatin ijtuththat min fawqi alar d i m a  lah a  min qar a r in      And the parable of a corrupt word is that of a corrupt tree, torn    up [from its roots] onto the face of the earth, wholly unable to    endure.38
   - Mohammad Asad
 
        
    
    
But the example of an evil word is that of an evil tree, which is    torn out from the earth and has no stability.
   - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
   And the parable of an evil word is that of an evil tree, uprooted from the earth, having no stability.
   - Mustafa Khattab
     
And the similitude of a bad saying is as a bad tree, uprooted    from upon the earth, possessing no stability.
   - Marmaduke Pickthall
   And the parable of an evil Word is that of an evil tree.  It is    torn up by the root from the surface of the earth: it has no    stability. 1902
   - Abdullah Yusuf Ali