complete verse (Job 22:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 22:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “You have even made your relative to run up a debt,
    and when he was defeated to repay you, you stripped him of his clothes
    and left him without a single cloth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “What! For no reason whatever, you took pledges from your brothers.
    You took the clothes of these poor people and left them naked.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For you (sing.) take the clothes of your (sing.) fellowman as a guarantee of his debt from you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you;
    you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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