Good News Translation
Some were cowardly and did not believe in the justice of God, and they ran away as fast as they could.

New Revised Standard Version
those who were cowardly and distrustful of God’s justice ran off and got away.

Contemporary English Version
Some of his troops were cowards, and others did not believe that God would punish the foreigners. And so all of them ran away.

New American Bible
those who were fearful and those who lacked faith in God’s justice deserted and got away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of God, fled away.

And some of them being afraid, and distrusting the justice of God, fled away.

2 Maccabees 8:11
Wherefore he sent immediately to the cities upon the sea coast, to invite men together to buy up the Jewish slaves, promising that they should have ninety slaves for one talent, not reflecting on the vengeance which was to follow him from the Almighty.

2 Maccabees 8:12
Now when Judas found that Nicanor was coming, he imparted to the Jews that were with him, that the enemy was at hand.

2 Maccabees 8:14
Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought the Lord, that he would deliver them from the wicked Nicanor, who had sold them before he came near them:

2 Maccabees 8:15
And if not for their sakes, yet for the covenant that he had made with their fathers, and for the sake of his holy and glorious name that was invoked upon them.