Good News Translation
If I pretended to eat this meat, just to live a little while longer, it would bring shame and disgrace on me and lead many young people astray.

New Revised Standard Version
and through my pretense, for the sake of living a brief moment longer, they would be led astray because of me, while I defile and disgrace my old age.

Contemporary English Version
I might live a little longer, but I would cause our young people to deny their faith, and I would end up a shameful, disgusting old man.

New American Bible
If I dissemble to gain a brief moment of life, they would be led astray by me, while I would bring defilement and dishonor on my old age.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.

And so they, through my dissimulation, and for a little time of a corruptible life, should be deceived, and hereby I should bring a stain and a curse upon my old age.

2 Maccabees 6:23
But he began to consider the dignity of his age, and his ancient years, and the inbred honour of his grey head, and his good life and conversation from a child; and he answered without delay, according to the ordinances of the holy law made by God, saying, that he would rather be sent into the other world.

2 Maccabees 6:24
For it doth not become our age, said he, to dissemble: whereby many young persons might think that Eleazar, at the age of fourscore and ten years, was gone over to the life of the heathens:

2 Maccabees 6:26
For though, for the present time, I should be delivered from the punishments of men, yet should I not escape the hand of the Almighty neither alive nor dead.

2 Maccabees 6:27
Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age: