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

and they said, ‘Who is more powerful than us?’
Did they not see that Allah, who created them,
is more powerful than them?
They used to impugn Our signs;
16 so We unleashed upon them an icy gale
during ill-fated days,
that We might make them taste
the punishment of disgrace
in the life of the world.
Yet the punishment of the Hereafter is surely
more disgraceful,
and they will not be helped.
17 As for [the people of] Thamūd,
We guided them,
but they preferred blindness to guidance.
So the bolt of a humiliating punishment seized them
because of what they used to earn.
18 And We delivered those who had faith
and were Godwary.
19 The day when the enemies of Allah are marched out
toward the Fire,
and they shall be held in check.
20 When they come to it,
their hearing will bear witness against them
and their sight and their skins
concerning what they used to do.
21 They will say to their skins,
‘Why did you bear witness against us?’
They will say, ‘We were given speech by Allah,
who gave speech to all things.