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Muhammad Asad   
the fire will scorch their faces, and they will abide therein with their lips distorted in pain
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
The Fire will burn their faces, leaving them deformed.
Safi Kaskas   
The Fire will sear their faces, distorting them horribly and painfully.

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Arabic   
تَلْفَحُ وُجُوهَهُمُ النَّارُ وَهُمْ فِيهَا كَالِحُون
Transliteration (2021)   
talfaḥu wujūhahumu l-nāru wahum fīhā kāliḥūn
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
  
Will burn their faces the Fire, and they in it (will) grin with displaced lips.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
the fire will scorch their faces, and they will abide therein with their lips distorted in pain
M. M. Pickthall   
The fire burneth their faces, and they are glum therein
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
The Fire will burn their faces, leaving them deformed.
Safi Kaskas   
The Fire will sear their faces, distorting them horribly and painfully.
Wahiduddin Khan   
The Fire will scorch their faces and they will abide therein with their faces distorted
Shakir   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they therein shall be in severe affliction
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
Their faces will fry in the fire. And they will be ones who are morose in it.
T.B.Irving   
The fire will scorch their faces while they will glower away in it.
Abdul Hye   
The fire will burn their faces, and they will grin (smile broadly) in it with displaced lips (disfigured).
The Study Quran   
The Fire will smite their faces, and they shall grimace therein
Dr. Kamal Omar   
The Fire will smoulder their faces, and they, therein will be disfigured ones
Farook Malik   
The Fire will burn their faces and they will grin therein with their lips displaced
Talal A. Itani (new translation)   
The Fire lashes their faces, and therein they grimace
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
The Fire is searing their faces, and they are therein glumly glowering
Muhammad Sarwar   
The fire will scorch their faces and they will be groaning therein in pain
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
Fire will scorch their faces, and they will be disfigured therein
Shabbir Ahmed   
Their faces in agony as the fire burns them therein
Dr. Munir Munshey   
Fire will scorch their faces. There, they will be gloomy and grave
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
The Fire will burn their faces, and therein they will smile (in ugliness) with their lips displaced
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
The Fire will sear their faces, and they therein will have taut smiles
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
The Fire will scorch their faces, and in it their grin will be with displaced lips
Abdel Haleem   
the Fire will scorch their faces and their lips will be twisted in pain
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
The Fire will scorch their faces, and therein they shall be grinning
Ahmed Ali   
Their faces will be scorched by flames, and they will grin and scowl within it
Aisha Bewley   
The Fire will sear their faces, making them grimace horribly in it, their lips drawn back from their teeth.
Ali Ünal   
The Fire will scorch their faces, their lips being displaced and their jaws protruding
Ali Quli Qara'i   
The Fire will scorch their faces, and they will be morose in it
Hamid S. Aziz   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they shall curl their lips (in gloom) therein
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
The fire burns their faces, and they frown in it
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
The fire will burn their faces, and they will grin therein, with their lips displaced
Musharraf Hussain   
The Fire will scorch their faces, leaving them grinning like skulls.
Maududi   
The Fire shall scorch their faces, exposing their jaws
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
The Fire will scorch their faces, and in it their grin will be with displaced lips
Mohammad Shafi   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and their lips therein shall be distorted in pain

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
The flame of fire shall smite their faces and they shall glower therein.
Rashad Khalifa   
Fire will overwhelm their faces, and they last miserably therein.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
The fire lashes their faces and therein are shriveled lips
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
The Fire will scorch their faces, and they therein will be in severe affliction
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira   
The fire scorches/burns their faces/fronts, and they are in it gloomy/grim
Bijan Moeinian   
The Fire will burn their faces so badly that their jaws will be exposed
Faridul Haque   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they will remain dejected in it
Sher Ali   
The fire will scorch their faces and they will grin with fear therein
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
The Fire will burn their faces, and they will be lying in it with teeth bulging out and mouths deformed
Amatul Rahman Omar   
The Fire shall scorch their faces (so they will lie there disfigured with burning) and they will wear a grin (of pain and anguish)
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
The Fire will burn their faces, and therein they will grin, with displaced lips (disfigured)

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
the Fire smiting their faces the while they glower there
George Sale   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they shall writhe their mouths therein for anguish
Edward Henry Palmer   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and they shall curl their lips therein
John Medows Rodwell   
The fire shall scorch their faces, and their lips shall quiver therein:
N J Dawood (2014)   
The fire will scorch their faces and they will writhe in anguish

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
The fire will burn their faces. They will [seem to] grin because their lips will be displaced.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
The fire will scorch their faces while they will glower away in it.
Sayyid Qutb   
The fire will scorch their faces, and therein they will look gloomy.
Ahmed Hulusi   
That fire will scorch their faces... Their faces will be strained with the suffering therein and their teeth will protrude out!
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
The Fire will burn their faces, and they are glum therein (with the.ir lips displaced)
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim   
Their faces shall be scorched with the Fire and their countenances shall be expressive of pain and torture and their souls shall be bewailing their misfortune, their suffering and their ill - fate and bewailing at the day that they were born
Mir Aneesuddin   
And those whose weight (of good) is light, those are the persons who (have put) themselves (in) loss, they will stay in hell.

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
The Fire will burn their faces, and they will therein grin, with their lips displaced
OLD Literal Word for Word   
Will burn their faces the Fire, and they in it (will) grin with displaced li