Other translations
New Catholic Bible
These could not only destroy people by the harm they did but also strike them dead by their terrifying appearance alone.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
not only could the harm they did destroy people, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
Good News Translation®
You could have made animals like these that would not have to attack those people to kill them, but could scare them to death just by looking at them.
Wycliffe Bible
of which beasts not only the hurting might destroy them, but also the sight might slay by dread [or but and the looking by dread slay].
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
not only could their damage exterminate men, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
not only could the harm they did destroy people, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
not only could the harm they did destroy people, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
Common English Bible © 2011
The damage that these beasts would have been able to do would have been more than enough to wipe out your enemies. Just the sight of them would have been enough to make them die from fear!
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Not only could these attack and completely destroy them; even their frightful appearance itself could slay.
Revised Standard Version
not only could their damage exterminate men, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
not only could the harm they did destroy people, but the mere sight of them could kill by fright.