Good News Translation
This happened so that the people whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that they are not fed by what they can grow. It is your word that maintains those who put their trust in you.

New Revised Standard Version
so that your children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn that it is not the production of crops that feeds humankind but that your word sustains those who trust in you.

Contemporary English Version
of your precious children. This was also your way of teaching them not to depend upon their crops, but rather to depend upon your word, since it takes care of those who trust you.

New American Bible
That your children whom you loved might learn, O LORD, that it is not the various kinds of fruits that nourish, but your word that preserves those who believe you!

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee.

That thy children, O Lord, whom thou lovedst, might know that it is not the growing of fruits that nourisheth men, but thy word preserveth them that believe in thee.

Wisdom 16:24
For the creature serving thee, the Creator, is made fierce against the unjust for their punishment: and abateth its strength for the benefit of them that trust in thee.

Wisdom 16:25
Therefore even then it was transformed into all things, and was obedient to thy grace, that nourisheth all, according to the will of them that desired it of thee:

Wisdom 16:27
For that which could not be destroyed by fire, being warmed with a little sunbeam, presently melted away:

Wisdom 16:28
That it might be known to all, that we ought to prevent the sun to bless thee, and adore thee at the dawning of the light.