Language-specific Insights

complete verse (Proverbs 2:8)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 2:8:

  • Kupsabiny: “(He) protects those people who do the things/words of truth and those who trust him.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “He protects those who behave well toward others.
    and He cares for those who trust Him.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “He guards/watches and keeps the works of the righteous-ones and faithful to him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “for he takes-care-of the righteous and trustworthy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 3:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 3:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “Wisdom is a tree of life for those people who welcomes (it) and (it) blesses those people who hold firmly to that wisdom.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Wisdom is a tree of life
    for those who accept it.
    Those who hold it tightly
    will rejoice forever.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Blessed is the man who remain/stay wise; wisdom can-make-good and prolong his life.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Wisdom, it is compared to a tree that gives life and is a source of happiness for the person who keeps-clinging to it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 4:15)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 4:15:

  • Kupsabiny: “Avoid and remove yourself from their paths/ways and follow your own way/path only.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Don’t think like that,
    Don’t go on that kind of way.
    Stay far away from them.
    and go on your own path.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Avoid [intensifier] that and you (sing.) will-continue in your (sing.) righteous living.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Go-far-from those-who-are-doing-evil, turn-your(sing.)-back-on and abandon them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 5:20)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 5:20:

  • Kupsabiny: “And you oh my son, why let an adulterous/immoral woman make you happy or desire another person’s wife?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “O my son,
    Why should you be attached to an adulterous woman?
    Why should you be entangled in the trap of a dishonorable woman?” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Child, you (sing.) be- not -carried-away by an evil woman. You (sing.) should not have-a-relationship with the wife of others.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “My child, why will- you (sing.) -be-persuaded by the spouse of another so-that you-will-be-made-happy with her breasts?” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 6:29)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 6:29:

  • Kupsabiny: “It is like that for a person who sleeps with someone’s wife/woman. There is no person who touches the wife of someone and escapes punishment.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Sleeping with someone else’s wife
    is also like that.
    Anyone who does this will have trouble.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Therefore if you (sing.) will-have-sex with the wife of others you (sing.) will-suffer.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “So also for one-who-sleeps-with the spouse of his fellowman, there-is-no one who does this who will not be punished.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 7:26)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 7:26:

  • Kupsabiny: “Refrain (plur.), because that woman has destroyed many people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Many men have been ruined
    because of women like this.
    Countless people have already been killed
    by [women] like this.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Many men already were-destroyed because of her.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “A woman like that-one is the cause of the being-destroyed and dying of many men.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 8:31)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 8:31:

  • Kupsabiny: “I was happy/rejoicing for/over the world/earth that God made and I was happy for (the) people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “I was rejoicing in His world,
    and I was rejoicing with His people.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I am happy/delight in the world that he created and in/for the people.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Great also was my happiness because of the earth that he created and because of people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)

complete verse (Proverbs 10:9)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 10:9:

  • Kupsabiny: “(A) person whose ways are perfect/pure lives in peace,
    but the one whose (ways) are crooked, his words/matters will be revealed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Honest people are able to go fearlessly.
    Dishonest people will be exposed.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “A man who lives without blame will- not -be-harmed, but a man who lives unrighteously/[lit. not right] his sin will-be-known.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “There-is-nothing for-you (sing.)-to-worry-about if all/totally right is what you (sing.) are doing, but one-who-follows a crooked path, his craftiness will-become-known.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “Honest people will be safe,
    but others (OR, God) will find out those who are dishonest.” (Source: Translation for Translators)