Good News Translation
If they had enough intelligence to speculate about the nature of the universe, why did they never find the Lord of all things?

New Revised Standard Version
for if they had the power to know so much that they could investigate the world, how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?

Contemporary English Version
because if they possessed the ability to examine the universe, why did it take them so long to find you, the Lord of the universe?

New American Bible
For if they so far succeeded in knowledge that they could speculate about the world, how did they not more quickly find its Lord?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

For if they were able to know so much as to make a judgment of the world: how did they not more easily find out the Lord thereof?

Wisdom 13:7
For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.

Wisdom 13:8
But then again they are not to be pardoned.

Wisdom 13:10
But unhappy are they, and their hope is among the dead, who have called gods the works of the hand of men, gold and silver, the inventions of art, and the resemblances of beasts, or an unprofitable stone the work of an ancient hand.

Wisdom 13:11
Or if an artist, a carpenter, hath cut down a tree proper for his use in the wood, and skilfully taken off all the bark thereof, and with his art, diligently formeth a vessel profitable for the common uses of life,