Good News Translation
Land animals took to the water, and swimming creatures came up on the land.

New Revised Standard Version
Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, nor did they melt the crystalline, quick-melting kind of heavenly food.

Contemporary English Version
Land animals became sea creatures, and sea creatures became land animals;

New American Bible
Flames, by contrast, neither consumed the flesh of the perishable animals that went about in them, nor melted the icelike, quick-melting kind of ambrosial food.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature.

The fire had power in water above its own virtue, and the water forgot its quenching nature.

Wisdom 19:17
For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.

Wisdom 19:18
For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things that before swam in the water passed upon the land.

Wisdom 19:20
On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of corruptible animals walking therein, neither did they melt that good food, which was apt to melt as ice. For in all things thou didst magnify thy people, O Lord, and didst honour them, and didst not despise them, but didst assist them at all times, and in every place.

Sirach P:1
The knowledge of many and great things hath been shewn us by the law, and the prophets, and others that have followed them: for which things Israel is to be commended for doctrine and wisdom, because not only they that speak must needs be skilful, but strangers also, both speaking and writing, may by their means become most learned.