Good News Translation
For the present I might be able to escape what you could do to me, but whether I live or die, I cannot escape Almighty God.

New Revised Standard Version
Even if for the present I would avoid the punishment of mortals, yet whether I live or die I will not escape the hands of the Almighty.

Contemporary English Version
I might escape torture at the hands of humans for now, but even when I am dead, I cannot escape from God All-Powerful!

New American Bible
Even if, for the time being, I avoid human punishment, I shall never, whether alive or dead, escape the hand of the Almighty.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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 6:24
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 6:25
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 6:27
Wherefore, by departing manfully out of this life, I shall shew myself worthy of my old age:

2 Maccabees 6:28
And I shall leave an example of fortitude to young men, if with a ready mind and constancy I suffer an honourable death, for the most venerable and most holy laws. And having spoken thus, he was forthwith carried to execution.