Good News Translation
In fact, it is a sign of kindness to punish a person immediately for his sins, rather than to wait a long time.

New Revised Standard Version
In fact, it is a sign of great kindness not to let the impious alone for long, but to punish them immediately.

Contemporary English Version
In fact, God shows his kindness by punishing sinners as soon as they disobey him, rather than waiting until later.

New American Bible
It is, in fact, a sign of great kindness to punish the impious promptly instead of letting them go for long.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

For it is a token of great goodness, when sinners are not suffered to go on in their ways for a long time, but are presently punished.

2 Maccabees 6:11
And others that had met together in caves that were near, and were keeping the sabbath day privately, being discovered by Philip, were burnt with fire, because they made a conscience to help themselves with their hands, by reason of the religious observance of the day.

2 Maccabees 6:12
Now I beseech those that shall read this book, that they be not shocked at these calamities, but that they consider the things that happened, not as being for the destruction, but for the correction of our nation.

2 Maccabees 6:14
For, not as with other nations, (whom the Lord patiently expecteth, that when the day of judgment shall come, he may punish them in the fulness of their sins:)

2 Maccabees 6:15
Doth he also deal with us, so as to suffer our sins to come to their height, and then take vengeance on us.