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

for you have indeed been erring.’
30 Some of the towns women said,
‘The chieftain’s wife
has solicited her slave boy!
He has captivated her love.
Indeed we see her to be in manifest error.’
31 When she heard of their machinations,
she sent for them
and arranged a repast,
and gave each of them a knife,
and said [to Joseph], ‘Come out before them.’
So when they saw him, they marveled at him
and cut their hands [absent-mindedly],
and they said, ‘Good heavens!
This is not a human being!
This is but a noble angel!’
32 She said,
‘He is the one on whose account you blamed me.
Certainly I did solicit him,
but he was continent,
and if he does not do what I bid him,
surely he shall be imprisoned
and be among the abased.’
33 He said, ‘My Lord! The prison is dearer to me
than to what they invite me.
If You do not turn away
their schemes from me,
then I will incline towards them
and become one of the senseless.’
34 So his Lord answered him