Other translations
New Catholic Bible
For God did not make death, nor does he delight in the death of the living.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.
Good News Translation®
God did not invent death, and when living creatures die, it gives him no pleasure.
Wycliffe Bible
for God made not death, neither he is glad in the perdition of living men. [for God made not death, nor gladdeth in the losing (or in the destroying) of men alive.]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the destruction of the living.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.
Common English Bible © 2011
God didn’t make death. God takes no delight in the ruin of anything that lives.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
Revised Standard Version
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
because God did not make death, and he does not delight in the death of the living.