Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:23:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who takes himself up (is proud), is pulled down,
but the one who takes himself down (humbles himself) is raised up.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Arrogance triggers people’s downfall.
Those who live humbly will gain respect.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The boasting of a person can-give him/her shame, but humility/[lit. the causing-to-be-low of person] can-give him/her honor.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who is proud (lit. keeps-raising his body) will-be-shamed at the end, but the humble will be praised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Proud people will be disgraced;
those who are humble will be respected.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:28:
- Kupsabiny: “Lizards can be caught
but they sneak into the bedroom of a king.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Even though geckos can be caught with the hand,
they can be found even in the king’s palace.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “the lizards, even if you (sing.) can catch them with your (sing.) hand, they can-be-seen in the palaces.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The house-lizards, they are easy to catch, but they are in palaces (loan palasyo).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:27:
- Kupsabiny: “You do not find her eating food for nothing (she always works for her food/is never idle), but she takes care of her children and house.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “She always takes good care of her household.
She does not feel the least bit lazy.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “She is industrious, and she takes-care of her household very well.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She diligently-cares-for her family and always she is industrious.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “She watches over everything that is done in her household,
and she is never lazy.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 6:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Let us return to God.
Let us try to know him.
He can be trusted as (sure as) the sun rises
and the rain rains.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Come! Let us know the LORD!
Let us press on to know him!
His going forth is as certain as the rising of the sun.
He will come to us like the rain to our place,
like the coming of rains to soak the fields."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Let- us (incl.) -try to know the LORD. He will-arrive and this (is) very sure like the rising of the sun. He will-arrive like rain that gives water to the earth.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “We will acknowledge God and we will put-forth our ability (our efforts) to know him. His coming is certain like the coming-out (i.e. rising) of the sun and the arriving of rain at its proper time to water the soil.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “We must try to know Yahweh;
if we do that, he will come and help us,
as surely as the sun rises every morning,
as surely as rain falls every winter/cold season,
and as surely as the rain falls again in the springtime/at the end of the cold season.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 13:7:
- Kupsabiny: “So, I will fight you like a lion
and lie in wait/ambush on the path like a leopard does.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So I will attack them like a lion.
I will hide in their path like a leopard.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore I will-attack you (plur.) and destroy like the attacking and devouring of a fierce animal of its victim, like what- a lion -does or a bear which was robbed of (her) children. I will-watch in the streets to attack you (plur.) like a leopard animal.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore I am/will-be like a lion (loan layon) or leopard (loan) that waits on the edge of the road for what he will bite and eat. I will also be like an angry/fierce bear (loan oso) whose children have-been-run-off-with by something. I will go meet and kill you.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “So I will attack you like a lion attacks other animals;
I will be like a leopard that waits beside the road to attack another animal.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 2:2:
- Kupsabiny: “That day comes with darkness and fear/anxiety.
Clouds will envelope the land and darkness cover it.
Many soldiers will swarm against it,
(they) will come quickly like when it dawns.
They (being many) shall swarm on (it) which has never been seen any day (before)
and never again shall others be seen like that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness! Like the first appearance of
dawn spreading upon the mountains
a huge and strong army will come.
There has never been anything like it before, and there will never be anything like it again.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “That day (is) dark and has-dark-rain-clouds. The terrifying/terrible locusts which (are) very great-in-number are-spreading upon the mountains like the spreading of the shining of the sun when (it) is- already -dawning. Nothing has- ever -happened which (is) like that since time-past, and (it) will- no-longer -happen like that forever/[lit. until whenever].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That-aforementioned day will-be-depressing, because it will be extremely dark and cloudy. Right then will arrive strong and uncountable soldiers like the sudden arrival of sunshine on the tops (lit. heads) of mountains. There-was-nothing similar to it that happened in the past and even in the coming time.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 3:20:
- Kupsabiny: “But the people of Judah shall live forever
and Jerusalem shall be inhabited from years to years.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Judah will abide forever
and Jerusalem will be inhabited by people from generation to generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “But Juda and Jerusalem will-be-inhabited forever/[lit. until whenever].” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I will avenge those whom they killed, I will not forgive those who sinned. But in Juda and Jerusalem however, there-will-be in-the-future inhabitants forever, and I who am God, I will stay on mountain Zion.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “but there will always be people living in Jerusalem and in other places in Judea.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 3:4:
- Kupsabiny: “Jonah entered that city, and went a journey that took him one day. He went along telling the people the message all that time. He told them, ‘It has remained only forty days for God to destroy this city!’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Walking around the whole day, Jonah proclaimed to those who were living there — "Forty days from now the city of Nineveh will be destroyed."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Jonas entered/went-inside Nineve. And after one day journeying, he said to the people there, ‘Just 40 days (are) now left/remaining and Nineve will-be-destroyed!’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Jonas began to go-through the city and one day is what he walked and he said making-known to them, ‘When forty days pass-by, this city Nineve will-be-destroyed.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “On the first day after Jonah arrived, he began walking through the city. He was proclaiming (OR, At the end of that day he started proclaiming) to the people, ‘Forty days from now, Nineveh will be destroyed {God will destroy Nineveh}!’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
