complete verse (Job 8:18)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 8:18:

  • Kupsabiny: “But when it is uprooted from there,
    it is pulled up as if it never was there at all!” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “But anyone uprooting them from their place
    and abandoning them in that place will speak like this, ‘I have never seen you.’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “But when it is uprooted, no one pays-attention to it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But if those plants are pulled out,
    it is as though the place where they were planted says ‘They were never here!’
    And that is what happens to wicked people who do not heed what God says.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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