中译版圣经:

• 但不许蝗虫害死他们，只叫他们受痛苦五个月。这痛苦就像蝎子螫人的痛苦一样。
• 新中译版圣经:但不许蝗虫害死他们，只叫他们受痛苦五个月。这痛苦就像蝎子螫人的痛苦一样。
• 新世纪圣经:蝗虫没有能力杀死他们，只可使他们受痛苦五个月。他们的痛苦就象人给蝎子螫了的痛苦一样。
• LCC:蝗虫却没有得权柄可以杀戮他们，只要叫他们受苦痛五个月；他们的苦痛就像蝎子螫人时所引起的苦痛一样。
• TCB:蝗虫无权杀死这些人，只可使他们受痛苦五个月。这种痛苦就像人被蝎子刺伤一样。
• 当代圣经:但不许杀死他们，只要让他们受五个月像蝎子螫般的痛苦。
• CSG:并且吩咐蝗 不可杀死他们，但要使他们受痛苦五个月，他们所受的痛苦，就如人被蝎子螫着时所受的痛苦。

英译版圣经:

• 新国际版圣经:They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
• NRSV:They were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings someone.
• NASV:And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
• 古老版圣经:And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
• ASV:And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.
• 基础英语版圣经:And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.
• DBY:and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment [was] as [the] torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
• 标准修订版圣经:they were allowed to torture them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torture was like the torture of a scorpion, when it stings a man.
• 直译圣经95版:And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
• 直译圣经77版:And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
• WEB:And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
• YLT:and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

希伯来语圣经:

内容备注:

多语对照圣经中的一节平均而言是一句，包含有12个不同的英文译本，和6个中文译本，以及一个希伯来语本（圣经旧约使用希伯来语和亚兰语书写，新约用希腊语书写）

NIV:新国际版（New International Version，简称NIV）是一个当代英语圣经译本，也是目前在英语国家被最为广泛使用的圣经版本,适合个人研读之用的译本。
NCB: New Century Bible 《新世纪圣经》
LCC:(Library of Christian Classes）
CLB:当代圣经译本(The Chinese Living Bible, CLB)
KJV:詹姆士钦定本是近古英文,是现在所能见到的最老的英译本
BBE:基础英语供移民和儿童阅读
NRSV:是新标准修订版
NASB:用纯粹直译方法（Strictly Literal）的译本
BHS:希伯来语原文圣经

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• torture [´tɔ:tʃə]   n.&vt.折磨；痛苦；拷问   (初中英语单词)
• international [,intə´næʃənəl]   a.国际的，世界的   (初中英语单词)
• torment [´tɔ:ment]   vt.(使)痛苦，折磨   (高中英语单词)