Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:16:
- Kupsabiny: “She searches for a good field and buys it. She uses the money she has to plant that field.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “She searches for a good field
and buys it with the money she has saved.
and she plants a vineyard.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “She knows how to choose land, and she buys it. Then she have- it -planted with grape from the money which she has-saved.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She is thorough/diligent to look-for land so-that she will buy-(it), then she plants-it with grapes that she bought with other earnings-of hers.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “She goes out and looks at a field that someone wants to sell;
and if it is a good field, she buys it.
She buys grapevines with the money that she has earned,
and then she plants them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
