Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 16:26:
- Kupsabiny: “Hunger leads/pushes one to work hard.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The workers work harder and harder
for the sake of their stomachs,
because they have to work like that
to be cured of their hunger.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Hunger pushes a man to work.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because-of a person’s desire to eat, he-becomes-industrious to work.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If a worker has an appetite/is hungry, that urges him to work hard
because he wants to earn money to buy things to eat.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
