Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 11:33:
- Uma: “Really no kidding is the big life [glory] of God! No kidding is the clearness of his heart [i.e., wisdom] and his knowledge! Who can ask-thoroughly about all his purposes! Who can investigate all his works!” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “God’s mercy to us (incl.) all is really unimaginable/unspeakable. His knowledge/wisdom is very deep and he knows all! We (dual) cannot understand his thinking/mind. We (dual) cannot understand his deeds.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “God’s kindness is very great. His wisdom and His understanding cannot be fathomed (the word fathomed literally means to sound the depths of a pool or a body of water with a stick, but it’s also used figuratively in this way). People cannot understand what He does and nobody can explain what He is doing.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “God is indeed rich in mercy! Neither is there any limit to his wisdom and what he knows. Even any person is not able-to-understand properly what he has decided to do and the way he fulfills what he decided.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “No one can come to know all the great good God has. No one can know how great is his wisdom. No one can know how great are his thoughts. Because no one can come to know well about how God does.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 12:59:
- Noongar: “‘I tell you, you will stay there to the day when you will give the last coin, everything you must give.'” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Truly I say: we will not be freed from jail until we have finished paying our fine.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “I tell you that you will not come out from there as long as you have not finished-paying all that was fined to you. It will not be reduced even one centavo.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And there you will have to stay until you can completely pay your fine.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “It is emphatically true that you (sing.) will not be-able-to-come-out from the jail until you (sing.) have paid all your (sing.) debt.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “What I will say to you is really true, that you have no getting out from there until you have paid in full all which you were sentenced to.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 18:3:
- Uma: “The village of Babel is destroyed, because the Babel people encouraged mankind all over the world to drink intoxicating drink. The meaning of that drink, the behavior of the Babel people that is not fitting. All the kings of the world follow their unfitting behavior. And all the merchants in the world become rich selling expensive things that the people of the village of Babel desire.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because this Babilon is like a bad woman who influenced all the tribes to drink grape juice that causes drunkenness, that means they were influenced by her to do bad. The kings of the world went along with her doing bad and the traders in the whole world became really rich because of the great greedy-desire of the woman.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “The reason this will take place is because the woman who is the city of Babylon has made all the people in all the kingdoms drink the wine which is her worship of idols. The kings of all the earth, they have joined her in her filthy deeds. The seekers of wealth on the earth, they have become wealthy through the desire of that woman for expensive things.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because she has made-drunk the collective-people in all nations with her strong alcoholic-beverage, meaning to say, she has persuaded them to follow her filthy behavior which leads to their punishment. Those who rule on the earth, they have slept-with her, and those-who-do-business in the world, they have-become-rich from her excessive greed to get-rich,’ he said.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It happened like this because of the evil being done by the people from there. For that city is like a woman who uses her body to make money. She/it has caused to be involved in her disgusting doings all nations of people under the heavens, including their kings. And as for the merchants, they have become rich now because of the nature/ways of the inhabitants which is wanting to get extremely ornate things.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because all the people all over the world have been made drunk from the wine of it in regard to the fornication it lived in. Concerning all the rulers all over the earth, all commit fornication like the people who lived in that city did. All of the merchants all over the world have become rich because the people of that city were overflowingly throwing away money.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 13:8:
- Uma: “Let us not be in debt to others. But actually there is always a debt of ours to others. That debt of ours: we must love others. So, let’s not get tired of paying that debt of ours. For if we love others, we fill/fulfil the Lord’s Law.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “If you (pl.) have a debt, pay it when the day of payment is reached. Even if you no longer have a debt, you have yet a different debt. This debt is your love to your fellows. If you love each other, you follow already the law written by Musa.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Don’t stretch out for a long time your paying your debts to anybody, but rather you must stretch out forever your keeping your companions precious in your breath. Because the person who holds his companions dear, he has already fulfilled the commands of God.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “If we have a debt, let us not take-a-long-time to pay it. But our obligation to love-one-another, let’s count that as a debt that has no end. Because the one who loves his companions obeys God’s commands.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “If you are in debt, do not remain thus, pay what you owe. That which you must do always is that you love your fellowman, each one of you. Because the person who loves his fellowman is thus walking like the word which is said in the law how people must walk.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 13:32:
- Noongar: “Jesus said to them, ‘Go and you tell that dog, ‘I am driving evil spirits out of people and healing sick people today and tomorrow and after three days I will finish all my work’.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Yesus said saying to them: ‘Go, say like this to that strategy-maker: today and tomorrow I still work, expelling demons and healing the sick. And on the third day, my work is finished.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Isa said to them, ‘Go, tell Herod that deceiving one there that today and tomorrow I continue my work driving out demons and healing the sick and on the third day my work is finished already.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘As for Herod, that person who really knows how to deceive, you tell him that I will not yet leave here because today and tomorrow I will drive away the demons that are afflicting people, and I will cure the sick, and two days from now, then I will finish my work here.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But Jesus said to them, ‘Go tell that tricky-one that I will be continuing still to cause-spirits -to-leave and heal the sick, but it won’t be long, because I have almost finished my work.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Jesus replied, saying, ‘Go to that king Herodes, what he is like being a deceiving wildcat. Tell him that I won’t be frightened by him into leaving here in a hurry. I will indeed continue my work of driving out evil spirits and healing the sick, for I still have time even though it’s not long now. And then it really will come that I will have fulfilled everything.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Revelation 19:11:
- Uma: “After that, I saw heaven open, and I saw a white horse. The name of the one who rode that horse [was] ‘The one who stays [i.e., is faithful] and is true.’ He is straight/just when he makes decisions, and he is also straight/just when he wages-war.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “After this, I saw heaven open and there was a white horse there. The name of its rider was Trustworthy and True. His judgment is straight/righteous and his fighting his enemies is also straight/righteous.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Then I saw heaven opened, and there was a white horse. Trustworthy and faithful is the one who rides on it. His judgment is righteous, and His fighting against His enemies is also righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then I saw that heaven was opened, and a white horse suddenly-came-out who had someone riding-on-his-back named Trustworthy and True. The way he judges is righteous and righteous also is his way of waging-war-against his enemies.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Next after that, heaven opened. I saw a white horse. As for the one riding on it, he is named No Changing and Truth. He judges justly and what he is doing which is fighting his opponents is correct.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “I saw then that heaven was opened. There appeared a white horse with someone sitting on it. This horseman is he who is known as the one who has not at all separated from God, all is true what he says. All that is right is what he does. For the war he makes, all is the truly the governing which is right that he does.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Romans 15:3:
- Uma: “For Kristus also did not seek his own happiness, he was ready to undergo suffering in his following God. In the Holy Book long ago there are words that foretell the Lord Yesus that say: ‘All their words disparaging God have struck/hit me.'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Because Isa Almasi he did not please himself but he yielded/surrendered to be criticized/to-be-put-down. It was written about this in the holy-book, saying, ‘The evil words spoken by people to you, God, hit me.'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “For as for Christ, he did not think about what He wanted. For a prophecy was written long ago which is His words to God in which He says, ‘The evil words of people who insulted you, this was also an insult to me,’ which is to say, if He obeyed His own desires, then people would not have insulted Him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because even Cristo, it was not what pleased himself that he thought about, because there is a written word of God concerning him which says, ‘The people’s despising of you (sing.), God, I am the one who was despised.'” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Because Christ didn’t look for just his own good. The Holy Book says what word he told God. He said: ‘The people who speak against you also speak against me.’ he said.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 69:9
Following are a number of back-translations of Luke 14:29:
- Noongar: “If he doesn’t have enough money, and he starts building the house, but afterwards he must stop, all the people seeing what happened, they will tease him.” (Source: Warda-Kwabba Luke-Ang)
- Uma: “Because if he goes ahead and puts in the foundation-stone and does not finish building because his money is gone, all the people who see will laugh at him,” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “For if you (pl.) do not calculate first, all the people who see it will finally make fun of you (pl.) when you (pl.) have put up the posts but do not have (the means) to finish it.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “Because if he does not calculate the money he’ll have to spend, he might just be able to set up the posts and that’s all. And the many people who see that will just smile and make fun of him because what was supposed to be a house, turned out only to be some posts stuck in the ground.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Because if he doesn’t calculate it and-meanwhile his money doesn’t suffice, later the house-posts only will be finished and he won’t be able-to-continue-it. Surely all who see, they will laugh at him” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “For maybe that’s as far as it will go, just the framework will be put up. He won’t be able to complete it. Well, he will be made a laughing-stock by each who sees.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
