Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 13:25:
- Kupsabiny: “Why scare a person whom the wind brings? (a leaf blown by the wind)
Can you waste your power/strength on something like grass?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “Do you even pursue the leaves of trees blown by the wind?
Do you go in pursuit of chaff/dry wheat awns?” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Why do- you (sing.) -frighten and pursue me? I am just like a straw or a leaf being-blown by the wind?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “Those things happen to them because they shook their fists/dared to fight against Almighty God,
and thought that they were strong enough to defeat him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
