Good News Translation
"Why should we be afraid of these Israelites?" they asked. "They are weak; they can't put up a strong defense.

New Revised Standard Version
They said, “We are not afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war.

Contemporary English Version
They said, "We aren't afraid of those weak Israelites! They don't have the strength to fight.

New American Bible
Now when Achior had finished saying these things, all the people standing round about the tent murmured; and the officers of Holofernes and all the inhabitants of the seacoast and of Moab alike said he should be cut to pieces.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are.

But of late returning to the Lord their God, from the different places wherein they were scattered, they are come together and are gone up into all these mountains, and possess Jerusalem again, where their holies are.

Judith 5:21
And as long as they sinned not in the sight of their God, it was well with them: for their God hateth iniquity.

Judith 5:22
And even some years ago when they had revolted from the way which God had given them to walk therein, they were destroyed in battles by many nations and very many of them were led away captive into a strange land.

Judith 5:24
Now therefore, my lord, search if there be any iniquity of theirs in the sight of their God: let us go up to them, because their God will surely deliver them to thee, and they shall be brought under the yoke of thy power:

Judith 5:25
But if there be no offence of this people in the sight of their God, we cannot resist them because their God will defend them: and we shall be a reproach to the whole earth.