They said, “If a wolf should eat him while we are a strong group, then we will surely be losers.”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
They said: 'If the wolf were to devour him while we are a(strong)group, then we should be losers'.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
They protested, thus: "If this be true"t, they said, "and the wolf were to devour him when we are a collective mass of men, then we will have incurred privation of attributes and it would be a lost sorrow to wail our fall."