2 Maccabees 4:16-18

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁶ For cause of which perilous contention had them, and they followed their ordinances; and by all things they coveted them for to be like them, which they had (as their) enemies and destroyers. [For grace of which perilous contention had them, and their ordinances they followed, or loved; and by all things they coveted for to like to them, whom they had enemies and destroyers.]

¹⁷ Forsooth for to do unfaithfully [or unpiously] against God’s laws it befalleth not without pain, but the time (pur)suing (or following) shall declare these things.

¹⁸ Soothly when Justus, done once in five years (Now when the athletic game that was done every five years), was made solemnly in Tyre, and the king was present,