2 Maccabees 9:12
Good News Translation
Then, when he could no longer endure his own stink, he said, "It is right that all mortals should be subject to God and not think that they are his equal."

New Revised Standard Version
And when he could not endure his own stench, he uttered these words, “It is right to be subject to God; mortals should not think that they are equal to God.”

Contemporary English Version
And when he could no longer stand his own smell, he said, "We humans are nothing compared to the Lord God, and we should obey him."

New American Bible
When he could no longer bear his own stench, he said, “It is right to be subject to God, and not to think one’s mortal self equal to God.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

2 Maccabees 9:10
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 9:11
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 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

2 Maccabees 9:14
And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:

Context
2 Maccabees 9
11And 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. 12And 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. 13Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.…
Cross References
2 Maccabees 9:10
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 9:11
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 9:13
Then this wicked man prayed to the Lord, of whom he was not like to obtain mercy.

2 Maccabees 9:14
And the city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground, and to make it a common burying place, he now desireth to make free:



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2 Maccabees 9:11
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