Good News Translation
It was necessary for the oppressors to suffer relentless need, while your people saw how their enemies were being tormented.

New Revised Standard Version
For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inescapable want should come, while to these others it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.

Contemporary English Version
In this way, those who had been oppressed could watch their oppressors suffer cruel punishment.

New American Bible
For inexorable want had to come upon those oppressors; but these needed only to be shown how their enemies were being tormented.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

For it was requisite that inevitable destruction should come upon them that exercised tyranny: but to these it should only be shewn how their enemies were destroyed.

Wisdom 16:2
Instead of which punishment, dealing well with thy people, thou gavest them their desire of delicious food, of a new taste, preparing for them quails for their meat:

Wisdom 16:3
To the end, that they indeed desiring food, by means of those things that were shewn and sent among them, might loath even that which was necessary to satisfy their desire. But these, after suffering want for a short time, tasted a new meat.

Wisdom 16:5
For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.

Wisdom 16:6
But thy wrath endured not for ever, but they were troubled for a short time for their correction, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.