Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Nehemiah 9:32:
- Kupsabiny: “So now, oh our God who is mighty, you have authority and are awesome, you observe/keep the covenant of your love. Do not forget all the suffering we have experienced. We have suffered all along together with our kings, our leaders, the priests, the prophets and our grandfathers, from the days we were defeated by the kings of Assyria.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “‘You (sing.) our (excl.) God is mighty and very awesome. You (sing.) fulfill your (sing.) covenant and you (sing.) show your (sing.) love. Now, do- not -forsake our (excl.) sufferings. We (excl.) all your (sing.) people had-suffered, as-well-as our (excl.) kings, leaders/[lit. heads], priests, prophets, and ancestors, since the time that the kings of Asiria oppressed us (excl.) until now.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘You (sing.) are the amazing, all-powerful and fearsome God. You (sing.) fulfill the-agreement- you (sing.) -present and your (sing.) love does not change, therefore you (sing.) should not consider that the difficulty we (excl.) are experiencing is light. We (excl.) and all our (sing.) kings, officials, priests, prophets, our (excl.) ancestors and all your (sing.) people have experienced-it starting from the ruling of the kings who were from-Assyria until today.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “‘Our God, you are great! You are mighty! You are awesome! You faithfully love us as you promised in your agreement with us that you would do! But now we are experiencing great difficulties/hardships. Great troubles have come to us, to our kings, to our other leaders, to our priests, and to our prophets. We have been experiencing these troubles since the armies of the kings of Assyria conquered us, and we are still experiencing them. We ask that you sincerely think about all these things.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 1:26:
- Kupsabiny: “So when you (plur.) are in trouble and suffer, or/and when trouble has come to you like a storm that knocks you down, I shall laugh at you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “So now when you have trouble
I will laugh at you.
When you get in trouble, I will applaud.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I will-laugh-at you (plur.) when destruction comes to you (plur.) as-if-like a whirlwind;
I will-mock you (plur.) when difficulties comes to you (plur.) and the dreadful happenings as-if-like storm.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Therefore I will laugh-at you when your fearful hardship arrives,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 3:3:
- Kupsabiny: “Cling to love and truth, clothe yourself with those things like a cloth and hammer (them) into the head/remember (them).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Never abandon devotion and faith
Keep hanging them around your neck,
keep them written in your heart.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] remain/stay nice/kind/good and faithful; do- not -lost that but-rather you (sing.) keep it well in your (sing.) heart.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Show these behaviors like jewelry that is necklaced and store it also in your (sing.) thoughts.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 4:11:
- Kupsabiny: “I am teaching you the way of wisdom and am directing you to (a) way/path that is straight,” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “I will take you along on the path of wisdom,
and I will take [you] along on the true way.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I already taught you (sing.) wisdom, how you (sing.) will-live-rightly/correctly.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “I have-been-teaching you (sing.) so-that you (sing.) will-become-intelligent/skillful/wise and will-follow the correct path.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 5:16:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not be like a well that every woman scoops water from.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Why should you let the water of your well flood the streets?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “For it might be your (sing.) wife will- also -betray you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “You (sing.) should not be like a river from-which- even any woman is-able-to -drink.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 6:25:
- Kupsabiny: “Do not desire the beauty of that woman and do not let her trap you with her blinking/winking eyes.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Don’t lose yourself in their charm,
Don’t be seduced by their eyes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] do- not -be-tempted by her beauty. [You (sing.)] do- not -be-carried-away by her winking.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Do not crave her beauty or be-persuaded by her eyes/face.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 7:22:
- Kupsabiny: “Immediately, that man followed that woman like an ox going to be slaughtered, or like an antelope heading to a trap” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “At once he went following that woman,
like an ox taken off to be slaughtered,
like a deer jumping to be caught in a trap.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “Right-then the man followed her like a cow being-dragged to the slaughter-place or like a deer going into a trap” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “That young-man followed immediately like the cow that is taken to the butchering-place or the deer that is caught in a noose-snare” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 8:27:
- Kupsabiny: “I was there when God established/prepared up there (heaven/sky) and when he drew how the sea/ocean was to surround the land.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “When the Lord created the heaven
above the earth,
and surrounded the oceans
with coastlines, I was there.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “I am already there when he created the heaven,
when he placed the (horizon)/seems-like section-between the heaven and the earth,” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When God set-up the sky in its correct location above the ocean, I was there.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
