New Revised Standard Version
I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply against you.

Contemporary English Version
But I won't do all this in the first year, because the land would become poor, and wild animals would be everywhere.

New American Bible
But I will not drive them all out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.

in one year

Deuteronomy 7:22 He will consume these nations in thy sight by little and little and by degrees. Thou wilt not be able to destroy them altogether: lest perhaps the beasts of the earth should increase upon thee.

Joshua 15:63 But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in Jerusalem until this present day.

Joshua 16:10 And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day, paying tribute.

Joshua 17:12,13 Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities, but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land. . . .

Judges 3:1-4 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites: . . .