complete verse (Job 14:12)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 14:12:

  • Kupsabiny: “people die so that they never get up.
    They stay like that until the end/death of heaven/up has arrived.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Just like that a mortal man will also lie down,
    and never wake up, till the skies disappear.
    Men will neither wake up nor get up from their sleep again.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “a man dies, and he no-longer can-rise-up or can-wake-up from his sleep while there is still heavens.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “people lie down and die and do not get up again.
    Until the heavens disappear,
    people who die do not wake up,
    and no one can wake them up.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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