Good News Translation
All over the land they lay half-dead and let it be known why they were dying.

New Revised Standard Version
and one here and another there, hurled down half dead, made known why they were dying;

New American Bible
And cast half-dead, one here, another there, they revealed why they were dying.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

Wisdom 18:16
With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven.

Wisdom 18:17
Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.

Wisdom 18:19
For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils.

Wisdom 18:20
But the just also were afterwards touched by an assault of death, and there was a disturbance of the multitude in the wilderness: but thy wrath did not long continue;