Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 4:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Those people do not sleep until they see that they have done evil, and sleep does not catch (them) until they see that they have destroyed a person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The wicked are not able to sleep
until they have harmed someone.
Sleep does not come to them
until they cause someone to fall.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For they could- not -sleep if they could- not -do evil/bad or destroy/downfall others.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For they will-not-sleep if they don’t do evil and if there is no person that they will-treat-cruelly/maliciously.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 5:21:
- Kupsabiny: “God knows how a person’s life is, and scrutinizes the ways of that person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “The Lord has been watching all that you do.
[He] has been watching you wherever you go.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For the LORD sees all what your (sing.) are-doing; and wherever you (sing.) go he looks.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “For God, he-keeps-watching all that people are-doing and where-(they)-go.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 6:30:
- Kupsabiny: “If it is hunger that has led a man to steal, he may be listened to.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “If a thief steals being hungry,
people will not think it is a big crime.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Often a thief who steals because he is hungry is not despised.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “A person who steals as a means-of-medicining his hunger will not be-criticized/despised.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 7:27:
- Kupsabiny: “If you (sing.) enter into a house of such a woman, then you are heading for the world of the dead and it is leading people into death/disaster.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Their house is the path
which goes to the place of death.
This is the route to hell.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If you (sing.) go to her house, (it is) like that you (sing.) are-going to the place of the dead.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Her house, it is like a path that leads to the place of the dead.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 8:32:
- Kupsabiny: “And so now my children, listen to me. Blessed is the person who will follow my ways.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “O my son, Listen!
Those who follow my way
will be rejoicing.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Therefore now children, [you (plur.)] listen to me,
for it is blessed for the ones who follow what I am saying.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘Listen my children. Fortunate is the one who obeys my advice.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 10:10:
- Kupsabiny: “(A) person who wags another one with a tongue while hiding/covering up evil,
brings suffering to people,
and/but the one who is bold and rebukes evil,
that one brings peace.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “People who close their eyes to lies
bring trouble.
But those who give open rebuke
bring peace.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A man who cheats can-cause/[lit. give] trouble, and a man who speaks foolishness will-be-ruin/destroyed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Craftiness, it-causes-there-to-be problems, but face-to-face advice, it-causes-there-to-be peace.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Those who signal with their eyes that they are about to do something that is wrong cause trouble,
but those who rebuke others truthfully cause them to be peaceful.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 11:10:
- Kupsabiny: “When a righteous person prospers, the people/community become at ease,
but/and when a wicked person dies, people rejoice.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the righteous ones prosper,
the city rejoices,
[they] shout with joy
when the wicked are destroyed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “The residents of a city shout for joy if the righteous prosper and also if the wicked die.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The townmates of a righteous/just-person are-happy if his life improves. They also shout with their joy if one who is doing evil dies.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “When things go well for righteous people, the people in their city are happy,
and they shout joyfully when wicked people die.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 12:11:
- Kupsabiny: “A person who works hard on the farm gets much food,
but the one who relies on thoughts that does not save/help people is a fool/misfit.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “One who works in his field
will have enough to eat.
but those who just dream and dream
are only fools.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “An industrious farmer has abundant food. The one-who- waste his time for a worthless/[lit. no value] works/deeds has no right understanding.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The one who is industrious to work his land has-an-excess-of food, but one who merely has many plans, he is mindless.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Farmers who work hard in their fields will produce good crops that will give them plenty to eat,
but those who waste their time working on worthless projects are foolish.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
