Muhammad Habib Shakir: This is for what your own hands have sent before and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: "This is because of the (unrighteous deeds) which your hands sent on before ye: For Allah never harms those who serve Him."
M.Pickthall: This is on account of that which your own hands have sent before (you to the judgment). Allah is no oppressor of (His) bondmen.
Amatul Rahmân Omer: `This (punishment) is because of that which your own hands have sent forward,´ and the fact is that Allâh is not at all unjust to His servants.
Maulana Mohammad Ali: Allah has certainly heard the saying of those who said: Allah is poor and we are rich. We shall record what they say, and their killing the prophets unjustly, and We shall say: Taste the chastisement of burning.