[和合本] 恐怕安了地基，不能成功，看见的人都笑话他，说：
[新标点] 恐怕安了地基，不能成功，看见的人都笑话他，说：
[和合修] 免得安了地基，不能盖成，看见的人都笑话他，说：
[新译本] 恐怕安了地基，而不能完成，所有看见的人都讥笑他，
[当代修] 否则，打好了地基却不能完工，徒惹别人嘲笑，
[现代修] 否则，恐怕地基奠好以后，楼房无法完成，看见的人都会笑话他，
[吕振中] 恐怕他立好了根基，竟不能造成，看的人就会讥诮起来，
[思高本] 免得他奠基以后，竟不能完工，所有看见的人都要讥诮他，
[文理本] 恐或置基而不克成、见者皆哂之、
[GNT] If you don't, you will not be able to finish the tower after laying the foundation; and all who see what happened will make fun of you.
[BBE] For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
[KJV] Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him,
[NKJV] "lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see [it] begin to mock him,
[KJ21] Lest it may happen, after he hath laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all who behold it begin to mock him,
[NASB] Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who are watching it will begin to ridicule him,
[NRSV] Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,
[WEB] Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
[ESV] Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
[NIV] For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
[NIrV] Suppose he starts building and is not able to finish. Then everyone who sees what he has done will laugh at him.
[HCSB] Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,
[CSB] Otherwise, after he has laid the foundation and cannot finish it, all the onlookers will begin to make fun of him,
[AMP] "Lest perhaps, after he has laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all the ones watching begin to be ridiculing him,
[NLT] Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you.
[YLT] lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,