Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Psalm 39:5:

• Chichewa Contempary Chichewa translation, 2002/2016:
  “You have made my days to be very few,
  the length of my years is worthless in your sight;
  the life of every person is short.
  Selah” (Source: Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero Back Translation)
• Newari:
  “How short you have made my life!
  From your perspective, what is my life span!!
  In comparison with you, my life span is nothing.
  [I] realized that a person’s life is only a breath, a short cubit.
  Sela” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon:
  “The life that you (sing.) gave me (is) short.
  This (is) just nothing in your (sing.) sight.
  In truth, the life of a man (is) like a wind that just passes-by,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Eastern Bru:
  “You made my life very short before your eyes. My life is as nothing. All people are only like a breath we breathe.” (Source: Bru Back Translation)
• Laarim:
  “You made my life to be short,
  the years of my life become like nothing before you.
  The life of each person is like just breath.” (Source: Laarim Back Translation)
• Nyakyusa-Ngonde (back-translation into Swahili):
  “Tazama, umenipa uhai mfupi sana!
  Siku za uhai wangu chache sana kwako.
  Uhai wa mtu uko kama vile pumzi tu.’” (Source: Nyakyusa Back Translation)
• English:
  “It seems that you have caused me to live only a short time;
  my lifetime/all the time that I have lived seems like nothing to you.
  The time that all we humans live is as short as a puff of wind.
  (Think about that!)” (Source: Translation for Translators)