Good News Translation
But even in this you showed mercy toward their enemies, since they were only human beings. You sent hornets ahead of your army, to destroy the enemy gradually.

New Revised Standard Version
But even these you spared, since they were but mortals, and sent wasps as forerunners of your army to destroy them little by little,

Contemporary English Version
But since these people were merely human, you spared many of them and sent hornets ahead of your army to destroy them a little at a time.

New American Bible
But even these you spared, since they were but mortals and sent wasps as forerunners of your army that they might exterminate them by degrees.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.

Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.

Wisdom 12:6
And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents,

Wisdom 12:7
That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.

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.