S: He said: Surely it grieves me that you should take him off, and I fear lest the wolf devour him while you are heedless of him.
012.014 Y: They said: "If the wolf were to devour him while we are (so large) a party, then should we indeed (first) have perished ourselves!"
P: They said: If the wolf should devour him when we are (so strong) a band, then surely we should have already perished.
S: They said: Surely if the wolf should devour him notwithstanding that we are a (strong) company, we should then certainly be losers.
012.015 Y: So they did take him away, and they all agreed to throw him down to the bottom of the well: and We put into his heart (this Message): 'Of a surety thou shalt (one day) tell them the truth of this their affair while they know (thee) not'
P: Then, when they led him off, and were of one mind that they should place him in the depth of the pit, We inspired in him: Thou wilt tell them of this deed of theirs when they know (thee) not.
S: So when they had gone off with him and agreed that they should put him down at the bottom of the pit, and We revealed to him: You will most certainly inform them of this their affair while they do not perceive.
012.016 Y: Then they came to their father in the early part of the night, weeping.
P: And they came weeping to their father in the evening.
S: And they came to their father at nightfall, weeping.