complete verse (Job 3:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 3:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “Let ir become overcast/clouded and darkness close over it.
    Let clouds engulf that day and the sun be buried/covered.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “May that night be covered by exceeding darkness and the shadow of death.
    May a cloud cover that day.
    May sunlight not shine there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “It would had-been-covered by darkness or by a thick dark-cloud, and would had- just -been-engulfed its light by darkness.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “I wish that thick/intense darkness would have filled that day,
    and that a black cloud would have come over it
    and blotted out all light
    and caused people to be terrified.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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