Good News Translation
But you judged your own people very strictly, even though you had made covenants with their ancestors and had solemnly promised to give them good things.

New Revised Standard Version
with what strictness you have judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!

Contemporary English Version
You did severely punish your people, even though you had made wonderful promises and agreements with them.

New American Bible
With what exactitude you judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave the sworn covenants of goodly promises!

Douay-Rheims Bible
With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to whose parents thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

With what circumspection hast thou judged thy own children, to whose parents thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

Wisdom 12:19
But thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and humane, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: because in judging, thou givest place for repentance for sins.

Wisdom 12:20
For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that deserved to die, with so great deliberation, giving them time and place whereby they might be changed from their wickedness:

Wisdom 12:22
Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy.

Wisdom 12:23
Wherefore thou hast also greatly tormented them, who, in their life, have lived foolishly and unjustly, by the same things which they worshipped.