Good News Translation
and taught them that punishment for sin takes the same form as the sin itself.

New Revised Standard Version
so that they might learn that one is punished by the very things by which one sins.

Contemporary English Version
and to teach them that sin brings its own punishment.

New American Bible
In return for their senseless, wicked thoughts, which misled them into worshiping dumb serpents and worthless insects, You sent upon them swarms of dumb creatures for vengeance;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance:

But for the foolish devices of their iniquity, because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance:

Wisdom 11:14
For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass.

Wisdom 11:15
For whom they scorned before, when he was thrown out at the time of his being wickedly exposed to perish, him they admired in the end, when they saw the event: their thirsting being unlike to that of the just.

Wisdom 11:17
That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.

Wisdom 11:18
For thy almighty hand, which made the world of matter without form, was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,