Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 20:18:
- Kupsabiny: “Why was I even born?
Was I only to get suffering and anxiety,
and end my life in disgrace?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Why was I ever born? So-that I only could see trouble and difficulty, and (I) die in shame?” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I have continually experienced much trouble and sorrow,
and I am disgraced now when I am about to die;
why was it necessary for me to me born?” (Source: Translation for Translators)
