Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
[As a rule,] whenever misfortune touches him, he is filled with self-pity
M. M. Pickthall
Fretful when evil befalleth hi
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Fretful when evil touches him
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
distressed when touched with evil,
Safi Kaskas
desperate when bad things happen,
Wahiduddin Khan
when misfortune touches him he starts lamenting
Shakir
Being greatly grieved when evil afflicts hi
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
When the worst afflicted him, he is impatient.
T.B.Irving
so he panics whenever any evil touches him,
Abdul Hye
when the evil touches them, they are distressed,
The Study Quran
when evil befalls him, fretful
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Agitated when misfortune touches him.
Talal Itani (2012)
Touched by adversity, he is fretful
Dr. Kamal Omar
When Ash-shar (harm) touched him, (he is one) who is extremely disturbed
when evil befalls him, he becomes despondent
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
When evil touches him, (he is) most impatient
Muhammad Sarwar
When they are afflicted, they complain
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
very upset when touched by evil
Shabbir Ahmed
Nervous when harm touches him
Dr. Munir Munshey
He (frets and) panics in the face of adversity
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Anxious and angry when evil touches him
When evil touches him, impatient
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
When adversity touches him he is miserable
Abdel Haleem
he is fretful when misfortune touches him
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
When evil toucheth him, he is bewailing
Ahmed Ali
If evil befalls him he is perturbed
Aisha Bewley
desperate when bad things happen,
Ali Ünal
Fretful when evil visits him
Ali Quli Qara'i
anxious when an ill befalls hi
Hamid S. Aziz
Fretful when evil afflicts hi
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
impatient (and worried) when badness touches him,
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Depressed when harm touches him
Musharraf Hussain
when misfortune befalls them, they are impatient,
Maududi
bewailing when evil befalls him
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
When adversity touches him he is miserable
Mohammad Shafi
When adversity touches him he bewails
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
When evil touches him, he is badly perplexed,
If touched by adversity, despondent.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
When evil comes upon him he is impatient
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Fretful when evil afflicts him
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
If the bad/evil/harm touched him, (he is) worrying/grievous and impatient
Bijan Moeinian
When man experiences hardship, he becomes depressed…
Faridul Haque
Very nervous when touched by misfortune
Sher Ali
When evil touches him, he is full of lamentations
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
He gets upset and worried when some hardship (or financial loss) afflicts him
Amatul Rahman Omar
He loses heart and becomes fretful when evil afflicts him
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Irritable (discontented) when evil touches him
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
When evil touches him, he is filled with concern for himself.
Munir Mezyed
Extremely anxious when he is touched by evil,
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
When harm afflicts him, he is anxious,
Linda “iLHam” Barto
[He/she is] fretful when adversity befalls him/her.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
when touched by adversity he is impatient,
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
so he panics whenever any evil touches him,
Samy Mahdy
If the evil touched him, impatient
Ahmed Hulusi
When misfortune touches him he begins to cry and lament (he is intolerant)!
Mir Aneesuddin
when evil afflicts him he is impatient
If he meets with a misfortune, or he is wedded to a calamity he becomes so full of misery nursing despair with additional notion of querulous utterances
The Wise Quran
When the evil touches him, impatient;