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YUSUFALI : "Ah! woe is me! Would that I had never taken such a one for a friend!

PICKTHAL : Alas for me! Ah, would that I had never taken such an one for friend!

SHAKIR : O woe is me! would that I had not taken such a one for a friend !

M& HILALI : "Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend!