Good News Translation
and no one was able to come close enough to carry him around. Yet only a short while before, he thought he could take hold of the stars.

New Revised Standard Version
Because of his intolerable stench no one was able to carry the man who a little while before had thought that he could touch the stars of heaven.

Contemporary English Version
and so no one was willing to carry this man who once thought he could reach up and touch the stars.

New American Bible
Shortly before, he had thought that he could reach the stars of heaven, and now, no one could endure to transport the man because of this intolerable stench.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench.

And the man that thought a little before he could reach to the stars of heaven, no man could endure to carry, for the intolerable stench.

2 Maccabees 9:8
Thus he that seemed to himself to command even the waves of the sea, being proud above the condition of man, and to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, now being cast down to the ground, was carried in a litter, bearing witness to the manifest power of God in himself:

2 Maccabees 9:9
So that worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome to the army.

2 Maccabees 9:11
And by this means, being brought from his great pride, he began to come to the knowledge of himself, being admonished by the scourge of God, his pains increasing every moment.

2 Maccabees 9:12
And when he himself could not now abide his own stench, he spoke thus: It is just to be subject to God, and that a mortal man should not equal himself to God.