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

so that it becomes a bare plain.
41 Or its water will sink down,
so that you cannot obtain it.’
42 And ruin closed in on his produce,
and he began to wring his hands
for what he had spent on it,
as it lay fallen on its trellises.
He was saying,
‘I wish I had not ascribed any partner to my Lord.’
43 He had no party to help him,
besides Allah,
nor could he help himself.
44 There, all authority belongs to Allah,
the Real.
He is best in rewarding,
and best in requiting.

45 Draw for them
the parable of the life of this world:
[It is] like the water We send down from the sky.
Then the earth’s vegetation mingles with it.
Then it becomes chaff, scattered by the wind.
And Allah is omnipotent over all things.
46 Wealth and children
are an adornment of the life of the world,
but lasting righteous deeds
are better with your Lord in reward
and better in hope.
47 The day We shall set the mountains moving
and you will see the earth in full view,