Good News Translation
We are not going to win the favor of our enemies by surrendering to them now. If we do surrender, the Lord our God will see that we are put to shame.

New Revised Standard Version
For our slavery will not bring us into favor, but the Lord our God will turn it to dishonor.

Contemporary English Version
They will never honor us if we are their slaves. We will only be disgraced--the Lord our God will certainly see to that.

New American Bible
Our servitude will not work to our advantage, but the Lord our God will turn it to disgrace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.

So Isaac, so Jacob, so Moses, and all that have pleased God, passed through many tribulations, remaining faithful.

Judith 8:21
And now, brethren, as you are the ancients among the people of God, and their very soul resteth upon you: comfort their hearts by your speech, that they may be mindful how our fathers were tempted that they might be proved, whether they worshipped their God truly.

Judith 8:22
They must remember how our father Abraham was tempted, and being proved by many tribulations, was made the friend of God.

Judith 8:24
But they that did not receive the trials with the fear of the Lord, but uttered their impatience and the reproach of their murmuring against the Lord,

Judith 8:25
Were destroyed by the destroyer, and perished by serpents.