Other translations
New Catholic Bible
O inclination to evil, why were you created to blanket the earth with deceit?
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
O inclination to evil, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
Good News Translation®
This evil impulse we have! Why was it ever formed? How did it manage to cover the earth with deceit?
Wycliffe Bible
A! the worst presumption, whereof art thou made to cover dry malice, and the guilefulness thereof? [O! most shrewd (or most depraved) presumption, whence art thou formed to cover dry malice, and the treachery of it?]
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
O evil imagination, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
O inclination to evil, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
O inclination to evil, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
Common English Bible © 2011
Evil inclination, how did you get involved in covering the land with deceit?
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
“Alas, my companion! Why were you created to fill the earth with deceit?”
Revised Standard Version
O evil imagination, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
O inclination to evil, why were you formed to cover the land with deceit?