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

That is an admonition for the mindful.
115 And be patient;
indeed Allah does not waste
the reward of the virtuous.

116 Why were there not among the generations
before you
a remnant [of the wise]
who might forbid corruption in the earth,
except a few
of those whom We delivered from among them?
Those who were wrongdoers pursued
that in which they had been granted affluence,
and they were a guilty lot.
117 Your Lord would never destroy the townships
unjustly
while their inhabitants were bringing about reform.
118 Had your Lord wished,
He would have made mankind one community;
but they continue to differ,
119 except those on whom your Lord has mercy
— and that is why He created them —
and the word of your Lord has been fulfilled:
‘I will surely fill hell
with jinn and humans, all together!’¹
120 Whatever We relate to you
of the accounts of the apostles
are those by which We strengthen your heart,
and there has come to you in this [sūrah] the truth