Good News Translation
I am not the builder of a new house who is concerned with every detail of the structure, but simply a painter whose only concern is to make the house look attractive.

New Revised Standard Version
For as the master builder of a new house must be concerned with the whole construction, while the one who undertakes its painting and decoration has to consider only what is suitable for its adornment, such in my judgment is the case with us.

Contemporary English Version
He was like a builder who had to know every detail about the new house he was constructing. I am simply a decorator whose only job is to make things look beautiful.

New American Bible
leaving the responsibility for exact details to the historian, and confining our efforts to presenting only a summary outline.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Leaving to the authors the exact handling of every particular, and as for ourselves, according to the plan proposed, studying to be brief.

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

2 Maccabees 2:27
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 2:28
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 2:30
For as the master builder of a new house must have care of the whole building: but he that taketh care to paint it, must seek out fit things for the adorning of it: so must it be judged of us.

2 Maccabees 2:31
For to collect all that is to be known, to put the discourse in order, and curiously to discuss every particular point, is the duty of the author of a history: