Other translations
New Catholic Bible
Even without these, a single breath would have sufficed to overcome them when pursued by justice and dispersed by your powerful spirit. But you have ordered all things by measure, number, and weight.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Even apart from these, people could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of your power. But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
Good News Translation®
But this was not necessary. You could have pursued them with your justice or struck them dead at the slightest hint of your power. But you have chosen to measure, count, and weigh everything you do.
Wycliffe Bible
For why and without these beasts they might be slain by one spirit, and suffer persecution of those (or by them) (for) their own deeds, and be scattered by the spirit of thy virtue (or by the breath of thy power). But also thou hast disposed all things in measure, and in number, and in weight; [But and without these with one spirit they might be slain, suffered persecution of their deeds self, and scattered by the spirit of his virtue. But and all things in measure, and number, weight thou disposedest;]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Even apart from these, men could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of thy power. But thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Even apart from these, people could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of your power. But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
Even apart from these, people could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of your power. But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
Common English Bible © 2011
Or without any of these, your enemies could have been cut down by a single breath—pursued by your justice and crushed by a powerful breath. But you have set all things in right order by proportion: by measure, by number, and by weight.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Even without these, they could have been killed at a single blast, pursued by justice and winnowed by your mighty spirit. But you have disposed all things by measure and number and weight.
Revised Standard Version
Even apart from these, men could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of thy power. But thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
Even apart from these, people could fall at a single breath when pursued by justice and scattered by the breath of your power. But you have arranged all things by measure and number and weight.