Good News Translation
O Lord, your acts of judgment are marvelous and hard to explain; that is why people who had not been taught about them went astray.

New Revised Standard Version
Great are your judgments and hard to describe; therefore uninstructed souls have gone astray.

Contemporary English Version
Your decisions are difficult to explain, and people who have not been taught have followed the wrong path.

New American Bible
For great are your judgments, and hard to describe; therefore the unruly souls went astray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

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.

Wisdom 16:29
For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

Wisdom 17:2
For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

Wisdom 17:3
And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.