Good News Translation
Your almighty power, Lord, created the world out of material that had no form at all. You could easily have punished those people by sending an invasion of bears or savage lions.

New Revised Standard Version
For your all-powerful hand, which created the world out of formless matter, did not lack the means to send upon them a multitude of bears, or bold lions,

Contemporary English Version
With your own mighty arm, you made the world out of something that had no form, and so you could have sent a lot of bears or ferocious lions.

New American Bible
that they might recognize that one is punished by the very things through which one sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That they might know that by what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented.

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

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 11:16
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 11:18
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,

Wisdom 11:19
Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage; either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes: