Good News Translation
Then you guided your people as they traveled through a country they did not know. You guided them with a pillar of fire. It was like a sun that would not harm them on that glorious journey.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore you provided a flaming pillar of fire as a guide for your people’s unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.

Contemporary English Version
Then, with a flaming fire at night and with the warmth of the sun during the day, you guided your people through places they had never traveled before.

New American Bible
Instead of this, you furnished the flaming pillar, a guide on the unknown way, and the mild sun for an honorable migration.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.

Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment.

Wisdom 18:1
But thy saints had a very great light, and they heard their voice indeed, but did not see their shape. And because they also did not suffer the same things, they glorified thee:

Wisdom 18:2
And they that before had been wronged, gave thanks, because they were not hurt now: and asked this gift, that there might be a difference.

Wisdom 18:4
The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world.

Wisdom 18:5
And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water.