Revelation 9:5

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

In context

3 And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.

4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

5 The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.

6 In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.

7 And the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men.

BSB Berean Standard Bible: The locusts were not given power to kill them, but only to torment them for five months, and their torment was like the stinging of a scorpion.
KJV King James Version: And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
WEB World English Bible: They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
ASV American Standard Version: And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.
YLT Young's Literal Translation: and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment [is] as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;
DBY Darby Translation: and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment [was] as [the] torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
WBS Webster Bible: And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.