COMMENTARY on 39:25
A. Yusuf Ali:

Translation:
Those before them (also) rejected (revelation), and so the Punishment came to them from directions they did not perceive. 4282
Commentary:

4282  Cf. 16:26 . They will be punished from quarters or in ways they do not perceive. From their Unbelief and Rebellion they think they derive great advantages, but they suddenly find out, when too late, that that which they exulted in was the cause of their undoing.