as well as the people of Noah before them - [since,] verily, they all had been most willful in their evildoing and most overweening

And before them, the people of Noah, for that they were (all) most unjust and most insolent transgressors,

And the folk of Noah aforetime, Lo! they were more unjust and more rebellious;

And that He it is Who gives wealth and contentment:

And the people of Noah before. Indeed, it was they who were [even] more unjust and oppressing.