Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Proverbs 21:1)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 21:1:

  • Kupsabiny: “As the farmer digs a trench for water in his farm,
    that is how God rules the thoughts of the king.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord,
    He can turn it whenever He likes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The thinking/mind of the kings is like a river whose flowing is-controlled by the LORD. He controls it according to what he wants.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “God is the one who directs the mind of the king like the way he directs where he wants a river to go.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Yahweh controls what kings do like he controls how streams flow;
    he causes kings to do just what he wants them to do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 22:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 22:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “All people are alike on earth, whether poor or rich,
    because God is the one who created man.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The rich and the poor have one thing in common,
    The Lord has made them both.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “The rich and the poor are both created by the LORD.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “This is the similarity of rich-(people) and poor: God created them all.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “There is one thing that is true about both rich people and poor people:
    Yahweh is the one who created all of them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 23:5)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 23:5:

  • Kupsabiny: “The things of wealth fly away as if (they) made for (them)selves wings. (They) fly like an eagle which goes until (it) disappears up in the clouds.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “In a blink of an eye the wings of wealth sprout,
    and they go flying away like an eagle.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Money will- only/just -disappear in just a wink, as-if has wings and fly far-away like an eagle.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Because you (sing.) don’t know-it and suddenly your (sing.) money will fly-away like the bird which is the eagle.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 24:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 24:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “because those people only think about how to do evil. When those people talk, they really want someone to suffer.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “because they have only violence in their hearts,
    and they talk only about making trouble [for others].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “For what they only think and say is to hurt/do-violent-act to others.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “because cruelty/maliciousness and turmoil/riots is what they think-about and speak-about.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 24:34)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 24:34:

  • Kupsabiny: “that is when poverty will come like a thief/robber comes unexpectedly to a person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “poverty will come to attack you like a bandit.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “and suddenly will-arrive/come to you (sing.) the scarcity/poverty like an armed robber.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “the outcome-of-it is, suddenly you (sing.) will-become-poor like the one-from-whom- a criminal -has-stolen.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 26:4)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:4:

  • Kupsabiny: “Do not argue with a fool with foolish words,
    because you will both be alike.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Do not answer the question of a fool.
    Otherwise you might become a fool just like he is.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Do not answer a fool if he is telling-a- foolish -story to you (sing.), for you (sing.) might become-like him too.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “If you (sing.) answer a foolish-person, do not suit your (sing.) words to his foolishness so-that you (sing.) will not be like him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “If a foolish person asks a foolish question, do not answer him,
    because if you answer his question, you are just as foolish as he is.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 27:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “A person who is away from home is like
    a cow that feels loneliness.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “A person far from home
    is like a bird that has lost its nest.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A man who strayed from his home/house is like a bird who strayed from his nest.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The person who is far from his house is like a bird that has gone-far from its nest.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Anyone who wanders far from his home/family
    is like a bird that is far from its nest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

complete verse (Proverbs 28:13)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:13:

  • Kupsabiny: “A person who hides his sin/evil does not prosper/progress,
    but the one who admits (the sins) and renounces (them), God has mercy on (him).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “If [you] do not repent of your sins
    you will never be able to prosper.
    If you repent and turn from your sin
    God will have mercy on you.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “You (sing.) will- never -prosper if you (sing.) will- not -confess your (sing.) sins, but if you (sing.) confess them and turn-away (from it), God will-have-mercy-on you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “The life of those who conceal their sin is not good, but God shows-kindness/mercy to those who confess and turn-their-backs-on their sin.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Those who refuse to confess/admit their sins will not prosper,
    but God acts mercifully/kindly toward those who confess their sins and turn away from their sinful behavior.” (Source: Translation for Translators)