Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 10:20:
- Kupsabiny: “Is it not the case that few days are left in my life?
Leave those for me to have a little rest/relaxation,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “What! Isn’t my short life finished?
Turn away from me, even for a little,
[that] I might have respite,” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Only now a little time (has-been) left for me, therefore just leave me alone so-that for even just a short time I could-be- happy” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I think that there are only a few days for me to remain alive;
so allow me to be alone/stop attacking me, in order that I may be a little cheerful ” (Source: Translation for Translators)
