Wisdom 16:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For it was requisite, that upon them exercising tyranny should come penury, which they could not avoid: but to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented. More versionsCommon English Bible The enemies of your people, who oppressed them like tyrants, were fated to experience a famine that never seemed to end. But all that was necessary for your people was to show them how their enemies were to be tortured. Catholic Public Domain Version For it was necessary, though they are without excuse, for them to unexpectedly come upon the ruin of exercising tyranny, yet this was as if to show them how their enemies were being exterminated. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed. Good News Translation (US Version) It was necessary for the oppressors to suffer relentless need, while your people saw how their enemies were being tormented. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition In this way, those who had been oppressed could watch their oppressors suffer cruel punishment. |