فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُمُ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ
Faar a doo bihi kaydan fajaAAaln a humu alasfaleen a
\n But whereas they sought to do evil unto him, We [frustrated their designs, and thus] brought them low 36
 - Mohammad Asad
Thus did they scheme against him: but We humiliated them in their scheme.
 - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And so they sought to harm him, but We made them inferior.
 - Mustafa Khattab
And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.
 - Marmaduke Pickthall
(This failing) they then sought a stratagem against him but We made them the ones most humiliated! 4094
 - Abdullah Yusuf Ali