Good News Translation
And so you punished them for their stupidity, and your judgment made them look like fools.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore, as though to children who cannot reason, you sent your judgment to mock them.

Contemporary English Version
And so you made them look like stupid children, when you punished them.

New American Bible
Therefore as though upon unreasoning children, you sent your judgment on them as a mockery;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them.

Therefore thou hast sent a judgment upon them, as senseless children, to mock them.

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.

Wisdom 12:24
For they went astray for a long time in the ways of error, holding those things for gods which are the most worthless among beasts, living after the manner of children without understanding.

Wisdom 12:26
But they that were not amended by mockeries and reprehensions, experienced the worthy judgment of God.

Wisdom 12:27
For seeing, with indignation, that they suffered by those very things which they took for gods, when they were destroyed by the same, they acknowledged him the true God, whom in time past they denied that they knew: for which cause the end also of their condemnation came upon them.