When distress befalls man, he supplicates Us, [lying] on his side, sitting, or standing; but when We remove his distress, he passes on as if he had never supplicated Us concerning the distress that had befallen him. What they have been doing is thus presented as decorous to the transgressors.
人びと（不信心者たち）が苦難に会った時は，横たわり，あるいは座り，あるいは立っていても（どんな状態のもとでも）われを呼ぶ。だがわれがかれらから苦難を除くと，（まるで）かれらを苦しめた（以前の）不幸のためわれを呼ばなかったかのように過ごしてしまう。このように愚かな者は，その行いを（悪魔によって）立派だと思わせられる。