Good News Translation
The wise may die young, but the wicked will never understand that this is the Lord's way of taking them off to safety.

New Revised Standard Version
For they will see the end of the wise, and will not understand what the Lord purposed for them, and for what he kept them safe.

Contemporary English Version
Sinners fail to understand why God gives them a long life and lets the wise die young.

New American Bible
For they will see the death of the wise one and will not understand what the LORD intended, or why he kept him safe.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.

For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.

Wisdom 4:15
That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.

Wisdom 4:16
But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

Wisdom 4:18
They shall see him, and shall despise him: but the Lord shall laugh them to scorn.

Wisdom 4:19
And they shall fall after this without honour, and be a reproach among the dead for ever: for he shall burst them puffed up and speechless, and shall shake them from the foundations, and they shall be utterly laid waste: they shall be in sorrow, and their memory shall perish.