Good News Translation
Their whole nation was cursed from the start, and though you had not punished them for their sins, it was not because you were afraid of anyone.

New Revised Standard Version
For they were an accursed race from the beginning, and it was not through fear of anyone that you left them unpunished for their sins.

Contemporary English Version
They were under your curse from the beginning, and though you were not afraid of anyone, you let them go unpunished.

New American Bible
for they were a people accursed from the beginning. Neither out of fear for anyone did you grant release from their sins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.

For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.

Wisdom 12:9
Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once:

Wisdom 12:10
But executing thy judgments by degrees, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.

Wisdom 12:12
For who shall say to thee: What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall come before thee to be a revenger of wicked men? or who shall accuse thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made ?

Wisdom 12:13
For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou shouldst shew that thou dost not give judgment unjustly.