Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:6:
- Kupsabiny: “It is better for your friends to cause you pain,
than when your enemy embraces you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Even though a friend gives you heartache,
you need not be afraid.
but the kisses of an enemy are frightening.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A hurtful rebuke of a friend has a good purpose, but a kiss of an enemy can- not -be-trusted.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You (sing.) can trust the motives of a friend whose advice causes-hurt, but the many kisses of an enemy are just-lies.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If a friend criticizes you, he is a good friend and you can trust him;
but if one of your enemies kisses you, he is probably wanting to deceive you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:11:
- Kupsabiny: “Rich people take themselves to be wise,
but a poor and understanding person knows that it is no so.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Rich people think they are wise.
But poor people who have insight
can see right through them. [Lit.: recognize them]” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The wealthy ones think that they are already very wise, but a poor man who has understanding knows what kind of people they really are.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The rich think-incorrectly that they are wise, but the poor-person who is skilled in distinguishing the behavior of people, he knows the truth of it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Many rich people think that they are wise,
but poor people who have good sense will find out whether rich people really are wise or not.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:15:
- Kupsabiny: “If a child is advised and disciplined, (he) he will come to his senses,
but if (he) is left/abandoned, (he) will shame his mother.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Discipline gives wisdom to a child.
The child who does whatever he likes
makes his mother ashamed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The spanking of a child in disciplining him can-teach him to-become-wise, but if he is just left-to-himself, he can-give disgrace to his parents.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A child who is spanked/whipped and admonished will-become-wise, but those who-are-ignored/left-alone, they will shame their mother(s) in-the-future.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If children are punished/spanked and reproved/warned,
they become wise;
but if they are allowed to do whatever they want to do,
they do things that cause their mothers to be ashamed of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:20:
- Kupsabiny: “Another amazing thing is this:
An adulterous woman may sleep around with people
and (then) say, ‘What wrong have I done?’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The attitude of an adulterous woman is like that:
She wipes her mouth and says —
"I haven’t done anything wrong."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “This is what a woman who commits-adultery-with-a-man does: She is-having-sex with another man, afterwards she says that she has- not -done evil.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “This is the illustration/comparison of an immoral (lit. doing-immorality-with) woman: she eats then she wipes her mouth and says that she has-no sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Gbaya: “This is the way of the adulteress after doing adultery, she bathes, gathers herself together sheʼs sɛ́ɛ́m [ideophone referring to being quiet] and says, I didnʼt do anything wrong.” (ideophones are a class of sound symbolic words expressing human sensation that are used as literary devices in many African languages) (Source: Philip Noss)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:19:
- Kupsabiny: “She prepares her threads by herself and weaves her clothes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “She spreads out the cotton thread
and weaves cloth herself.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “She herself does the garment to make cloth.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She herself weaves cloth” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “She holds the spindle/rod which twists the thread that she is making,
and then she spins the thread that she will use.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 3:1:
- Kupsabiny: “God said to me, ‘Go and show love to your wife/woman again even though she is adulterous and has another man. You must love her as I have loved the people of Israel even though they are worshipping idols so they can offer them cakes of grapes.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The LORD said to me, "Go, go again and love your wife. Even though she is an adulteress and she has loved other men. Show her kindness and love, just as the LORD also showed kindness and love to the Israelites, even though they turn away towards other gods and they love to take offerings of raisins to idols."” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The LORD said to me, ‘Show again your (sing.) love to your (sing.) wife even though she commits-adultery-with-a-man. Love her as I love the people of Israel even though they worship other gods by offering bread with raisins.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When that was so, God said to me, ‘Go take-back your (sing.) spouse. Even though she commits-adultery (lit. mans-with) and another/others love-(her), show your (sing.) love to her like the way I who am God love the Israelita, even-though they have turned-their-backs-on me and have worshipped false/imitation-gods to-which- they -have-offered the best offerings.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Go and show to your wife that you still love her, even though she has been committing adultery with another man who loves her. That will show that I still love the people of Israel, even though they worship other gods/idols and eat raisin cakes in feasts that honor those gods.’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 11:8:
- Kupsabiny: “But how can I be refusing you, oh Ephraim?
How can I discard you, oh Israel?
How can I punish you
like I punished the city of Admah,
and/or like I punished the city of Zeboyim?
My stomach does not accept me to do like that
because the love I have for you (plur.) is strong/heavy.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O Ephraim, how can I abandon you?
O Israel, how can I hand you over into the hands of the wicked?
How can I wipe you out like Admah?
How can I destroy you like Zeboiim?
My heart is completely torn up within me.
My heart is full of compassion. ” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘Those- (who) -come-from-Israel, I can- not -reject you (plur.) or just leave (you) alone. I can- not -completely destroy you (plur.) like what I did to the towns of Admah/[Adma] and Zeboim. My feeling can- not -endure that I will-do this to you (plur.). I pity you (plur.) so much.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Israel, am I perhaps able-to-endure handing- you (sing.) -over to your (sing.) enemies? Am I perhaps able-to-endure abandoning you (sing.)? Can I actually (RQ implies no) destroy you (sing.) like Adma and Zeboiim (marker indicates these are place names)? Here-now I repent. I-now-realize I am not able-to-do-it because of my extreme mercy/kindness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “You people of Israel, I certainly do not want to abandon you
and allow your enemies to capture you.
I do not want to act toward you like I acted toward Admah and Zeboiim,
cities that I completely destroyed when I destroyed Sodom.
I have changed my mind about punishing you;
my desire to pity you has increased.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 1:6:
- Kupsabiny: “Locusts have raided our land.
That swarm of locusts have covered everything completely!
They had sharp teeth
like those of a lion.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A powerful group beyond number
came up against my land,
their teeth are the teeth of a lion,
and they have the jaw-teeth of a lioness.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For the land of the LORD was-attacked by terrible/terrifying locusts which (are) very great-in-number. Their teeth (are) sharp like the teeth of a lion.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It’s as if one nation has destroyed our country. They are strong and they are not countable. Their teeth are sharp like the canines of a lion (loan layon).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
