But when We decreed death for him, naught showed them his death but a creature of the earth that ate away his staff; and when it fell down, the jinn came to know plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in abasing torment.
われがかれ（スライマーン）に死の断を下した時も，かれらにその死を知らせたのは，一匹の地の虫がかれの杖を蝕ばんだことであった。それでかれが倒れると，ジンたちは（始めて）悟った。もしも幽玄界のことを知っていたならば，恥辱の懲罰に服している要もなかったのに。