[和合本] 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。
[新标点] 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。
[和合修] 但是不许蝗虫害死他们，只可使他们受痛苦五个月；这痛苦就像人被蝎子螫了的痛苦一样。
[新译本] 蝗虫没有能力杀死他们，只可使他们受痛苦五个月。他们的痛苦就像人给蝎子螫了的痛苦一样。
[当代修] 但不可杀死他们，只折磨他们五个月。那种折磨就像被蝎子蛰到一样。
[现代修] 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。
[吕振中] 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。
[思高本] 并且吩咐蝗虫不可杀死他们，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。
[文理本] 然不许杀之、祇令其痛苦五月、如蝎螫之痛苦然、
[GNT] The locusts were not allowed to kill these people, but only to torture them for five months. The pain caused by the torture is like the pain caused by a scorpion's sting.
[BBE] 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.
[KJV] 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.
[NKJV] And they were not given [authority] to kill them, but to torment them [for] five months. Their torment [was] like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
[KJ21] 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.
[NASB] And (Lit it was given to them)they were not permitted to kill (Lit them)anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it (Lit strikes)stings a person.
[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.
[WEB] They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
[ESV] They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.
[NIV] 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.
[NIrV] They were not allowed to kill them. But they could hurt them over and over for five months. The pain the people suffered was like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
[HCSB] In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
[CSB] In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.
[AMP] They were not permitted to kill them, but to torment (distress, vex) them for five months; and the pain caused them was like the torture of a scorpion when it stings a person.
[NLT] They were told not to kill them but to torture them for five months with pain like the pain of a scorpion sting.
[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;