Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Proverbs 3:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 3:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “Honor God in/with the wealth that you have gotten, and bless/give him your first food (produce),” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Honor the Lord
    by offering the first fruits of your harvest
    and all the possessions that you have.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Honor the LORD with your (sing.) properties/possessions like for example by offering to him the first part of all your (sing.) harvest.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Honor/Worship God through your (sing.) offering money and (offering) your (sing.) first harvest(s) (i.e., first part of your harvest).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 4:6)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 4:6:

  • Kupsabiny: “Do not refuse wisdom for it is defending/helping you, but love/accept (it) so it will keep/guard you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Don’t abandon wisdom, and it will protect you,
    If you love it, it will care for you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Do- not -reject/forsake wisdom, but-rather give it importance, for this will-keep you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Don’t turn-your(sing.)-back-on-it and that’s what will take-care-of you (sing.), esteem/value it and it will protect you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 5:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 5:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “You will cry/groan severely on your last days when you have become weak,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “At the time of death, you will be only skin and bones.
    and you will have to go on weeping.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) will-groan when you (sing.) are- now -dying, where-in your (plur.) whole body is now very skinny/unhealthy.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “At its end, you (sing.) will-groan for your (sing.) body will already become-weak.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 6:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 6:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “Please, my child, fix in the head the words that your father is telling you and do not neglect what your mother is teaching you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O my son!
    Pay attention to your father’s commands
    Do not forget your mother’s teaching.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Child, obey what your (sing.) parents are-commanding and teaching you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “My child, obey the commands/instructions of your (sing.) father and do not be-forgetting what your (sing.) mother has-been-teaching.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 7:17)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 7:17:

  • Kupsabiny: “I have sprinkled that bed of mine with sweet smelling oils.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I have perfumed my bed
    with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I put it with myrrh, aloe, and cinnamon perfumes.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “and I have-put-on-it perfume called mirra, aloe and cinnamon.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 8:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 8:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “I was with God before he created anything in the earth/world.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The Lord created me first in all creation,
    before He created anything else.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “In the past-time still I was/am already with the LORD before he created everything.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “‘At the very-first, when God had still not yet created everything, he caused- me -to-exist. I was created before the world (lit. I-went-ahead-of to be created than the world).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 9:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 9:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “But the foolish person does not know that he is going to die if he goes there. Her former visitors have died.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But those who go there do not know
    that the people who go
    to that woman’s house will die,
    and [that] those who have gone [there] before
    are already buried in the grave.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But these people do- not -know that the ones-who-go to her die. The ones who already went to her are already there in the place of the dead.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “But they do not know that those who go to her will die and that others, they are already in the location of the dead.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 10:32)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 10:32:

  • Kupsabiny: “A righteous person speaks worthy words,
    but a sinner turns words/things upside down.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The mouths of the righteous
    know what is good,
    from the mouths of the wicked
    come only perverse matters.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A righteous man knows what is right to say, but a wicked man, what he only knows to say is wrong.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The righteous/just, he knows how to speak what is appropriate, but the one whose behavior is bad, he knows only how to speak lies and what is of no use.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Righteous people know what to say that is acceptable,
    but wicked people are constantly saying things that are not true.” (Source: Translation for Translators)