Good News Translation
It is for you, mighty kings, that I write these words, so that you may know how to act wisely and avoid mistakes.

New Revised Standard Version
To you then, O monarchs, my words are directed, so that you may learn wisdom and not transgress.

Contemporary English Version
I am speaking to you rulers, so that you will have wisdom and not sin against God.

New American Bible
but for those in power a rigorous scrutiny impends.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.

But a greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.

Wisdom 6:7
For to him that is little, mercy is granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented.

Wisdom 6:8
For God will not except any man's person, neither will he stand in awe of any man's greatness: for he made the little and the great, and he hath equally care of all.

Wisdom 6:10
To you, therefore, O kings, are these my words, that you may learn wisdom, and not fall from it.

Wisdom 6:11
For they that have kept just things justly, shall be justified: and they that have learned these things, shall find what to answer.