they (would have) remained
Then, when We decreed (Solomon's) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff: so when he fell down, the Jinns saw plainly that if they had known the unseen, they would not have tarried in the humiliating Penalty (of their Task).
We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,
我决定他死亡的时候,只有持他的手杖的柱虫,指示他们他已经死了。当他倒下的时候,精灵们恍然大悟:假若他们能知幽玄,那末,他们未曾逗留在凌辱的刑罚中。
我确已使以色列的后裔摆脱了凌辱的刑罚--