Good News Translation
You tested your people, as parents test their children, to warn them. But you judged their enemies like a stern king and condemned them.

New Revised Standard Version
For you tested them as a parent does in warning, but you examined the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

Contemporary English Version
You corrected your people like parents correcting their children as a warning, but you punished the others like a harsh king condemning a criminal.

New American Bible
For when they had been tried, though only mildly chastised, they recognized how the wicked, condemned in anger, were being tormented.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.

For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.

Wisdom 11:8
And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

Wisdom 11:9
Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.

Wisdom 11:11
For thou didst admonish and try them as a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou didst examine and condemn.

Wisdom 11:12
For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike.