Common English Bible

4 Maccabees 5:5-10 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. Antiochus looked at him and said,

6. "Old man, before I begin to have you tortured, I would advise you to eat the pork and save yourself.

7. I respect your old age. Even though you have had gray hair for a long time, you don’t seem to have a mature understanding of things, since you observe the Jewish religion.

8. Why are you disgusted by eating this animal’s delicious meat? It’s a gift that nature has given to us.

9. It’s stupid not to enjoy pleasant things that aren’t shameful, and it’s wrong to refuse nature’s gifts.

10. I will think that you are even more stupid if you continue to disobey me to your own disadvantage for the sake of your brainless ideas about the truth.