Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 9:15:

• Kupsabiny: “There was in that city a person who was poor and wise. Even though that person was able to save the city through his wisdom, no one thought/remembered him afterwards.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “In that city lived a man who was poor, but who had much wisdom, and he delivered that city by his wisdom. But no one remembered that poor man.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “There on that city there was a poor man but wise, that would have been able to save this city by his wisdom. But there is none [intensifier] (that) remembered him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “In that town there was a man who was poor but very wise. Because of doing what that man suggested, the town was saved; but people soon forgot about him.” (Source: Translation for Translators)