Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And as for the poets [they, too, are prone to deceive themselves: and so, only] those who are lost in grievous error would follow them
Arthur John Arberry
And the poets -- the perverse follow them
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And the Poets,- It is those straying in Evil, who follow them
Arabic
وَٱلشُّعَرَاۤءُ یَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلۡغَاوُۥنَ ٢٢٤
Transliteration (2021)
wal-shuʿarāu yattabiʿuhumu l-ghāwūn