Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of The Glorious Koran. An Explanatory Translation (1930)

31. Say (unto them): Expect (your fill)! Lo! I am with you among the expectant.

32. Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk?

33. Or say they: He hath invented it? Nay, but they will not believe!

34. Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful,

35. Or were they created out of naught? Or are they the creators?

36. Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, but they are sure of nothing!

37. Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord? Or have they been given charge (thereof)?

38. Or have they any stairway (unto heaven) by means of which they overhear (decrees). Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!

39. Or hath He daughters whereas ye have sons?

40. Or askest thou (Muhammad) a fee from them so that they are plunged in debt?

41. Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write (it) down?

42. Or seek they to ensnare (the messenger)? But those who disbelieve, they are the ensnared!

43. Or have they any god beside Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner (unto Him)!

44. And if they were to see a fragment of the heaven falling, they would say: A heap of clouds.

45. Then let them be (O Muhammad), till they meet their day, in which they will be thunder-stricken,

46. A day in which their guile will naught avail them, nor will they be helped.

47. And verily, for those who do wrong, there is a punishment beyond that. But most of them know not.