Good News Translation
that God is kind and merciful to his own people; he protects those whom he has chosen.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the peoples saw and did not understand, or take such a thing to heart, that God’s grace and mercy are with his elect, and that he watches over his holy ones.

Contemporary English Version
Others failed to understand that this is how God shows kindness and mercy and protects his holy people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.

That the grace of God, and his mercy is with his saints, and that he hath respect to his chosen.

Wisdom 4:13
Being made perfect in a short space, he fulfilled a long time.

Wisdom 4:14
For his soul pleased God: therefore he hastened to bring him out of the midst of iniquities: but the people see this, and understand not, nor lay up such things in their hearts:

Wisdom 4:16
But the just that is dead, condemneth the wicked that are living, and youth soon ended, the long life of the unjust.

Wisdom 4:17
For they shall see the end of the wise man, and it shall not understand what God hath designed for him, and why the Lord hath set him in safety.