Those Who Set The Ranks - 37:17 Even our ancestors before us?
in the context of verses 16, 17...21; related
Yaseen/36:51 When the trumpet is blown, they will rise from their graves and run to their Lord.
Yaseen/36:52 "Woe to us,"they will say, "Who raised us up from where we were lying? This is what the Most Merciful had promised. So the messengers spoke the truth."

The Cattle/6:31 "The losers are those who deny the meeting with Allah. When that moment (the end of the world) suddenly overtakes them, they will say, carrying their burdens of sin on their backs, "Woe to us for wasting our life therein! How evil is that which they bear!"