Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Proverbs 23:23)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 23:23:

  • Kupsabiny: “Love (sing.) words of truth and hold on to (them). Get wisdom, be stable/disciplined and understand.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Try to get truth, wisdom, insight
    and good thoughts!
    Don’t sell them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Try that you (sing.) can-receive truth, wisdom, straightening of your (sing.) behavior, and understanding. And you (sing.) never exchange them for anything.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Put-forth your (sing.) ability to learn proper teaching and wisdom, advice and understanding, and do not (sing.) forget (them).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 24:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 24:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “because an evil person does not have anything to hope for in the days to come.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “For as for the wicked, they will have no future.
    Their future will be dark.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “for they do not have a good future and they will be like a lamp which is snuffed-out.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because they have no good outcome and they are like lamps that are-extinguished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 25:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “A person who makes false accusation causes pain to people like when a knife has stabbed you, and/or if/when you are beaten with a big stick or like when an arrow has hit you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Accusing a friend falsely
    is like chopping him with a sword,
    It is like piercing [him] with a spear,
    It is like shooting [him] with an arrow.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A man who witnesses a lie against his fellowman can-harm like a sword, something-to-hit, and bow.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “It is as if you (sing.) have clubbed and wounded your (sing.) friend with a sword or arrow if you (sing.) story something that is not true concerning him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “To falsely accuse others in court
    is like attacking them with a war-club or a sword or a sharp arrow.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 26:22)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:22:

  • Kupsabiny: “How very sweet is gossip to some people!
    It enters those people to the bones.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The words of gossips are tasty choice morsels,
    and they [these words] go into people’s inmost hearts.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A gossip is like food which is good to chew and swallow.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Gossip, it is like delicious food that one likes to swallow.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “People enjoy listening to what gossips say about others just like they enjoy tasty food;
    they enjoy listening to what gossips tell them like they enjoy swallowing tasty food.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 27:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “If/when you do like that, your sheep can clothe you,
    and you can buy a field from (the sale of) your goats.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “You will have cloth from the sheep.
    and with the money from the sale of a female goat
    [you] will be able to buy a field.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (sing.) can-make clothes from the fur of the sheep, and you (sing.) can sell some of your (sing.) goats so-that you (sing.) can buy land.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “you (sing.) will-come-to-have clothes by-means-of the sheep and you (sing.) will-be-able-to-buy fields by-means-of your (sing.) goats.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “you will be able to shear the sheep and make clothes from the wool,
    and you will get money from selling some of the goats to buy more land,” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 29:3)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:3:

  • Kupsabiny: “A person who loves wisdom makes his/her father happy,
    but (he) who follows/joins with prostitutes/adulteresses, is destroying/wasting his wealth.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The one who pursues wisdom
    makes his parents glad.
    The one who goes to the place of prostitutes,
    will lose his property.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A man who wants wisdom gives joy to his father.
    A man who keeps-on joining with the women who sell their body only wastes his money.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The child who esteems wisdom, he makes-happy his father, but the one who spends on prostitutes, he merely uses-up in foolishness/senselessness his wealth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Those who are eager to become wise cause their parents to be glad;
    those who spend their time with prostitutes will end up giving all their money to them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 30:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “My God, as long as I live, deny/protect/prevent me from lying. Do not let me become rich or poor,. but give me what is fitting/needful for me.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Keep me far from falsehood.
    [Make] me neither poor nor rich,
    just give me enough to eat.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “First, help me that I will- not -lie. Second, do- not -let- me -become-rich or become-poor, but just give me what I need.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Make- me -become trustworthy so I will absolutely not tell-lies and do not excessively make- me -rich or make- me -poor. May what you (sing.) give be exactly what-I-need,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Help me never to lie or deceive people
    and do not cause me to become poor or to become rich.
    Just give me the food that I need;” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 31:7)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:7:

  • Kupsabiny: “Let those (people) drink and then (they) forget their poverty/weakness and their troubles.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “By drinking they forget their sorrows,
    and they forget the pains of their heart.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Let- the people -drink who have now lost hope and their feeling were-hurt, so-that they could forget their poverty and difficulties.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “so-that they will forget their hardship/suffering and their pitiable situation.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “If they drink, they will forget that they are poor,
    and they will not think about their distress/troubles any more.” (Source: Translation for Translators)