Qala innama yateekum bihi Allahu in shaa wama antum bimuAAjizeena
English
Ahmed Ali
He replied: "Only God will bring it on you if He please, and you cannot prevail against Him.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (he said) noah said: (only allah will bring it upon you) he said: the one who will bring chastisement on you is allah (if he will) to punish you, (and ye can by no means escape) his chastisement.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : he said, ‘only god will bring it upon you, if he wills, to hasten it on for you, for the decision is his, not mine; and you cannot escape him, elude god.