Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:36:
- Uma: «What is the use of us gathering all the world’s wealth, if we don’t get good life in the future.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «For a person, even if he has all the treasures/possessions/wealth in the world, there is no use in it if he has not everlasting life.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «Even if a person can come to own the whole world, it’s no use to him if he is not given eternal life.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «Because what do-you-suppose will be the benefit to a person if he comes-to-own the entire world and then his life is lost and he is punished forever? None!» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «For what does a person gain, even supposing all the wealth here in the world would be his, if his soul/spirit will be lost-permanently because it will have to go there to hardship/suffering which is without ending?» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tlahuitoltepec Mixe: «What does it profit if a man gains the world for himself and his soul gets lost?»
- El Nayar Cora: «When someone will lose his life it will not help him the one who has everything in this world.»
- San Mateo Del Mar Huave: «What if someone owns everything in the world. What will it serve him if he fails to get life from God.» (Source for this and two above: B. Moore / G. Turner in Notes on Translation 1967, p. 1ff.)