And, indeed, [O Muhammad, even] before thy time have [God's] apostles been derided - but those who scoffed at them were [in the end] overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.

Mocked were (many) apostle before thee; But their scoffers were hemmed in by the thing that they mocked.

Messengers before thee, indeed, were mocked, but that whereat they mocked surrounded those who scoffed at them.

And messengers before thee were indeed mocked, so there befell those of them who scoffed, that whereat they scoffed.

And already were messengers ridiculed before you, but those who mocked them were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.