39:50 qad qaalahal-ladhiyna min qablihim fa maa agnaa ‘Anhum maa kaanuu yaksibuun

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
Those before them also said the same, so their earnings did not benefit them at all.

Yusuf Ali:
Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.

Pickthal:
Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;