cum enim temptati sunt et quidem cum misericordia disciplinam accipientes scierunt quemadmodum cum ira iudicati impii tormenta paterentur

You tested the former, admonishing them like a father, but the latter you sifted as a stern king does in condemnation.

For you tested them as a parent does in warning, but you examined the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

You tested your people, as parents test their children, to warn them. But you judged their enemies like a stern king and condemned them.

Soothly thou admonishing as a father, provedest these men; but thou as an hard king asking condemnedest them (or the others). [These forsooth as a father warned, thou provedest; them forsooth as an hard king asking, thou condemnedest.]

For thou didst test them as a father does in warning, but thou didst examine the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

For you tested them as a parent does in warning, but you examined the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

For you tested them as a parent does in warning, but you examined the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

You disciplined your people in the same way that parents warn their children, but you examined and passed sentence on the ungodly like a strict ruler.

You tested your own people, admonishing them as a father; but as a stern king you probed and condemned the wicked.

For thou didst test them as a father does in warning, but thou didst examine the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.

For you tested them as a parent does in warning, but you examined the ungodly as a stern king does in condemnation.