Good News Translation
When terrible, fierce snakes attacked your people and were killing them with their poison, you did not remain angry long enough to destroy your people.

New Revised Standard Version
For when the terrible rage of wild animals came upon your people and they were being destroyed by the bites of writhing serpents, your wrath did not continue to the end;

Contemporary English Version
When you were angry with your people and were destroying them with poisonous snakes, you stopped before all of them died,

New American Bible
For when the dire venom of beasts came upon them and they were dying from the bite of crooked serpents, your anger endured not to the end.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the fierce rage of beasts came upon these, they were destroyed by the bitings of crooked serpents.

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

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 16:4
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 16:6
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.

Wisdom 16:7
For he that turned to it, was not healed by that which he saw, but by thee, the Saviour of all.