Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 23:18:
- Kupsabiny: “and on the day after tomorrow (in the future), there will be nothing you will lose/lack of what you hope in/for.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Because of this you will have reward.
You will not be disappointed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “And very surely you (sing.) have a good future, and what you are-desiring will- not -be-dismayed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If you (sing.) do that, you (sing.) will have a good expectation in a future day (lit. addition of days) and for-certain it-will-be-accomplished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 24:15:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not be like an evil person who plans to attack/invade the house of a gently/upright person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not plot to rob good people
like wicked people do.
And do not drive them out of their houses.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] do- not -become-like a wicked man, who watches-closely to attack the dwelling-place of a righteous man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Do not (sing.) follow-the-example-of a criminal. Do not (sing.) secretly-watch-for what you (sing.) will steal from the house of a righteous-person.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:13:
- Kupsabiny: “A messenger of/with truth makes the master happy like cold water which quenches thirst.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A trustworthy messenger cools the heart of his master
like cold water at harvest time.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A trustworthy messenger can-make- the feeling -good of the one who sent him, like a cold water on summer-season.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The trustworthy servant, he-can-be-compared-to cold water in the dry-season that strengthens his master.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “A messenger who is reliable/tells someone else exactly what he was told to say refreshes the spirits of his bosses who sent him
like snow/cold water refreshes the ground at the time that people harvest crops.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:17:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who enters himself into the fight of other people,
he is like a person who takes hold of a dog which is a stranger/foreign and pulls (the/its) ears.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Putting one’s hand in a dispute among others
is like grabbing a mad dog by the ears.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “(It is) dangerous if you (sing.) get-involved with the fight of others; (it is) just like you (sing.) seized a dog by the ears.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who joins-in-taking-a-role (connotes meddles-with) in the quarrels of others, he is like a person who grabs-hold-of an ear of a passing dog.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Anyone who meddles/involves himself in a quarrel that does not concern him
is as foolish as someone who tries to grab a passing dog by its ears.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:21:
- Kupsabiny: “The goodness/quality of gold and silver is known when it is brought through fire,
but the goodness of a person is known when he is praised.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “are also never satisfied.
Like gold and silver are tested
by putting them in the fire
people are also tested by being honored.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “As gold and silver are-tested if it is pure or not by fire, our (incl.) lives are tested by the praising of other people to us (incl.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Gold and silver are verified/confirmed by-means-of flaming fire, a person moreover, his personhood (i.e., what kind of person he is) can-be-known by-means-of his-being-praised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Workers put silver and gold in a very hot furnace to burn out what is impure,
and people learn what we are really like when they see how we react when people praise us.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:26:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who follows only his own thoughts is stupid,
but a person who is understanding lives well.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “People who live only by their own thoughts
are fools.
People who listen to the words of prudent [people]
will be secure.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A man who only trusts in himself is foolish.
A man who lives wisely will- not -be-harmed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “One who trusts in himself (lit. his body) is foolish, but the wise-person, he has nothing to-worry-about.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Those who believe that what they think is always right are foolish;
those who act wisely will escape danger/be safe.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:3:
- Kupsabiny: “I have not taught myself/studied wisdom and do not know the Holy God.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I have never studied the matter of wisdom.
I don’t know anything about God.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I have- never -learned to become-wise,
and I know nothing about God.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “There-is-no wisdom that I have learned and I know nothing about God who is Holy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “I have not learned how to become wise
and I do not know much about God.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:2:
- Kupsabiny: “‘You, my beloved son whom I received through my prayers. My son, what should I tell you?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O my son, my first son,
the son that I have because of the vows that I made!” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “My child, you (sing.) were-born as an answer to my prayers. I am saying to you (sing.) that you (sing.) do not” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “What will I say to you (sing.) who are my child, you (sing.) who are the answer to my prayer(s)?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “You are my son; I gave birth to you ;
you are the son that God gave me in answer to my prayers.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
