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YUSUFALI : Mocked were (many) messengers before thee; but their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.

PICKTHAL : Messengers (of Allah) have been derided before thee, but that whereat they scoffed surrounded such of them as did deride.

SHAKIR : And certainly messengers before you were mocked at, but that which they mocked at encompassed the scoffers among them.

M& HILALI : And indeed (many) Messengers were mocked before you, but their scoffers were surrounded by the very thing that they used to mock at.