Then when We decreed death for him, naught discovered his death to them' save a moving creature of the earth which gnawed away his staff. Then when he fell, the Jinn clearly perceived that, if they had known the unseen they would not have tarried in the ignominious torment.
پس چون مرگ را بر او مقرر داشتيم، جز جنبنده‌اى خاكى [=موريانه‌] كه عصاى او را [به تدريج‌] مى‌خورد، [آدميان را] از مرگ او آگاه نگردانيد، پس چون [سليمان‌] فرو افتاد براى جنيان روشن گرديد كه اگر غيب مى‌دانستند، در آن عذاب خفت‌آور [باقى‌] نمى‌ماندند.