Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:10:
- Kupsabiny: “If/When a person deceives a righteous person, that person will meet with his own sin/evil,
but righteous people will get/find good words/matters.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “People who lead good people along an evil path
will fall into the ditch that they themselves have dug.
But for good people there will be a reward.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “A man who schemes that a righteous man will-(cause-to)-sin will-be-victimized by his own scheme. But a man whose life is without blame/fault will-prosper.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It’s-as-if you (sing.) have dug a pit into-which-you(sing.)-will-fall if you lead into sinning the righteous, but the righteous by-contrast, their lives will-become-good/better.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Those who cause honest/good people to do what is evil
will fall into their own pits/traps,
but good things will happen to those who are innocent/have not done what is wrong.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:14:
- Kupsabiny: “When/If a king does right/justice to a poor person,
he will rule for long (time).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “A king who judges the poor with equal justice
will rule for ever.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “If the judgment of a king toward the poor ones is righteous, his ruling/reigns will-continue.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The king who defends the rights of the poor, no one will snatch-away his rule forever.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “If kings judge poor people fairly,
they will continue to rule for a long time.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:19:
- Kupsabiny: “How does an eagle keep in the air so that it does not fall down?
What does a snake use for walking on top of a stone?
What is used for driving/steering a ship in the ocean?
Why does a man love each other with a girl?” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “[how] an eagle flies in the sky,
[how] a snake slithers [Lit.: goes] on the rocks,
[how] a ship finds its way in the ocean,
and [how] a love affair takes place
between a man and a woman.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “How an eagle can-fly in the space-in-the-air,
how a snake can-crawl on the rocks,
how a ship can-float on the sea,
and how a male can-court a female.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “the way an eagle flies above (= sky), the way a snake slithers in a rocky-area, the way a ship (loan bapor) crosses the ocean and the way a young-man and young-woman love-one-another.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:18:
- Kupsabiny: “She knows when to buy her things and when to sell. She struggles with her work until midnight.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “She understands well the value of her work.
And she continues working even into the night.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “She is good in-business, and she works till night.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “She knows the value of what she is making, and she works until the night has-become-late.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “She knows when she is getting a good profit from her business.
When it is necessary, she works until it is late at night.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 1:23:
- Kankanaey: “In that time, the Israelita will be like plants that I plant in their land and I will-cause-(them)-to-grow so that they will become my people. I will show-mercy to the people who were named ‘not shown-mercy’ in the past. I will count/consider as my people those who were named ‘not my people’ in the past and they will say in-the-future, ‘You (sing.) are our (excl.) God.’ ’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Hosea 11:7:
- Kupsabiny: “My people truly wants to refuse me.
They look to me but surely, I am not helping them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “My people insist on turning away from me.
Even though they call me the Most High,
I will not honor them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They who (are) my people are-determined to turn-away from me. Therefore even-if they will-call upon me in unity I will- not -save them.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Truly they persist in turning-their-backs on me. Even-though how-many ways/occasions the prophets advise them to return to me the Highest God, they nevertheless do not acknowledge-me.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “My people are determined to turn away from/abandon me.
They say that I am the great all-powerful God,
but they do not honor me at all.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 1:5:
- Kupsabiny: “Wake up and cry oh, you drunkards.
Let those who are drinking wine shout loudly.
Shout (plur.) on account of the sweet wine
because those vine plants the wine was made from are finished.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Hey you drunkards, wake up and cry out loud!
All you who drink wine wail!
Because from now on the wine will not reach your mouth.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “You (plur.) who (are) drunkards, [you (plur.)] rise-up and cry loudly! For you (plur.) have-nothing to-drink now; no more grapes to be-made into new wine.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Wake-up/Get-up you drunkards! Cry, because the grapes that they would have used to make new alcoholic-beverage (wine, beer, or commercial liquor; the word for rice-wine does not collocate with grapes) have already been ruined.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Joel 3:3:
- Kupsabiny: “and distributed to themselves my people by throwing of dice. Those people used boys to buy/pay for prostitutes, and they used girls to buy/pay for wine they could drink.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “They cast lots for my people.
And they sold boys into prostitution.
Young girls they sold for wine to drink.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
- Hiligaynon: “They cast-lots for my people in-order to divide- (them) -up, and they sold the male and female children as slaves, in-order-that they could-pay-for drinks and women who sell their bodies.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “They caused-to-be-chosen-by-lot who would take my people to be their prisoners. They sold the children who were males and females so-that they would have the means-to-pay for prostitutes and alcoholic-beverage.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “and they threw marked stones/cast lots to determine who would get each of my people.
Then they sold some of the Israeli boys and girls
to get money to pay for prostitutes and wine to drink.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
