Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:20:
- Kupsabiny: “A greedy person never gets enough,
like the place of the dead is always open.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “Death and destruction are never satisfied.
In the same way people’s desires” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “Death has no satisfaction; also the desire of a man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Death and the place of the dead can absolutely never be satisfied, likewise also people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there;
and humans are always wanting to acquire more things, too.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
