Good News Translation
But maybe we are too harsh with these people. After all, they may have really wanted to find God, but couldn't.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet these people are little to be blamed, for perhaps they go astray while seeking God and desiring to find him.

Contemporary English Version
On the other hand, these people are not entirely to blame for taking the wrong path in their desire to know and to find you.

New American Bible
But yet, for these the blame is less; For they have gone astray perhaps, though they seek God and wish to find him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

But yet as to these they are less to be blamed. For they perhaps err, seeking God, and desirous to find him.

Wisdom 13:4
Or if they admired their power, and their effects, let them understand by them, that he that made them, is mightier than they:

Wisdom 13:5
For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the creator of them may be seen, so as to be known thereby.

Wisdom 13:7
For being conversant among his works, they search: and they are persuaded that the things are good which are seen.

Wisdom 13:8
But then again they are not to be pardoned.