Wisdom 12:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ though thou wast not unable to give the ungodly into the hands of the righteous in battle,
or to destroy them at one blow by dread wild beasts or thy stern word.
¹⁰ But judging them little by little thou gavest them a chance to repent,
though thou wast not unaware that their origin^[a] was evil
and their wickedness inborn,
and that their way of thinking would never change.
¹¹ For they were an accursed race from the beginning,
and it was not through fear of any one that thou didst leave them unpunished for their sins.