Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:2:
- Kupsabiny: “I am so foolish that I don’t deserve again to be called that a person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I am a person who is not worthy to be called human.
I have no human sense.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “‘I am the most-senseless of all men.
My thinking as-if is not of a man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation) - Kankanaey: “I am like an animal, I am not counted as a person because I have no mind/thoughts.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “It seems that I am very stupid;
I do not deserve to be considered to be a human;
I do not have the good sense that humans should have.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
