Good News Translation
We know it is unhealthy to drink wine or water alone, whereas wine mixed with water makes a delightfully tasty drink. So also a good story skillfully written gives pleasure to those who read it. With this I conclude.

New Revised Standard Version
For just as it is harmful to drink wine alone, or, again, to drink water alone, while wine mixed with water is sweet and delicious and enhances one’s enjoyment, so also the style of the story delights the ears of those who read the work. And here will be the end.

Contemporary English Version
To drink wine by itself can be harmful to your health, and the same can be said of drinking water by itself. But if they are mixed together, they make an enjoyable drink. And so, I have mixed a variety of styles, to make my book interesting both for those who read it aloud and for those who hear it read. The end.

New American Bible
If it is well written and to the point, that is what I wanted; if it is poorly done and mediocre, that is the best I could do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.

Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.

2 Maccabees 15:37
But to celebrate the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, called in the Syrian language, the day before Mardochias' day.

2 Maccabees 15:38
So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.

2 Maccabees 15:40
For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended.

Wisdom 1:1
Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart: