Good News Translation
It is as difficult as preparing a banquet that people of different tastes will enjoy. But I am happy to undergo this hardship in order to please my readers.

New Revised Standard Version
just as it is not easy for one who prepares a banquet and seeks the benefit of others. Nevertheless, to secure the gratitude of many we will gladly endure the uncomfortable toil,

New American Bible
For us who have undertaken the labor of making this digest, the task, far from being easy, is one of sweat and of sleepless nights.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking this work of abridging, we have taken in hand no easy task; yea, rather a business full of watching and sweat.

And as to ourselves indeed, in undertaking this work of abridging, we have taken in hand no easy task; yea, rather a business full of watching and sweat.

2 Maccabees 2:25
For considering the multitude of books, and the difficulty that they find that desire to undertake the narrations of histories, because of the multitude of the matter,

2 Maccabees 2:26
We have taken care for those indeed that are willing to read, that it might be a pleasure of mind: and for the studious, that they may more easily commit to memory: and that all that read might receive profit.

2 Maccabees 2:28
But as they that prepare a feast, and seek to satisfy the will of others: for the sake of many, we willingly undergo the labour.

2 Maccabees 2:29
Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.