Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

Say, ‘Allah is more swift at devising.’
Indeed Our messengers write down what you scheme.
22 It is He who carries you across land
and sea.
When you are in the ships,
and they sail with them with a favourable wind,
rejoicing in it,
there comes upon them a tempestuous wind
and waves assail them from every side,
and they think that they are besieged,
they invoke Allah putting exclusive faith in Him,
‘If You deliver us from this,
we will surely be among the grateful.’
23 But when He delivers them,
behold, they commit violations on the earth
unduly!
O mankind!
Your violations are only to your own detriment.
[These are] the wares of the life of this world;
then to Us will be your return,
whereat We will inform you
concerning what you used to do.
24 The parable of the life of this world is that of water
which We send down from the sky.
It mingles with the earth’s vegetation
from which humans and cattle eat.
When the earth puts on its luster
and is adorned,
and its inhabitants think they have power over it,
Our edict comes to it,