complete verse (Ecclesiastes 9:2)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Ecclesiastes 9:2:

  • Kupsabiny: “Things come to all people regardless of who they are. They come to the righteous, to sinners, the gentle and the rebellious, the holy/clean and those who are not clear/holy, those who bring gifts/sacrifices and those who do not bring. The things that a good person will meet with will also come to the sinner, and a person who makes a promise to God is like the one who does not promise.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “The righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean to those who offer sacrifices and to those who do not offer sacrifices, in the end it will happen to all in the same way.
    As to the good people
    so in the same way it will also happen to the sinful people.
    As to people who take oaths
    so in the same way it will also happen to people who are afraid to take them.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Just the same is the end-result/fate/future of all kinds of people — the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad-one, the clean and the dirty, and the (one-who) offers and the (one-who) does- not -offer. Just the same is the good person and the sinner, and the (one-who) swears and the (one who) does- not -swear.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “But we know that some time in the future we will all die;
    it does not matter whether we act righteously or wickedly,
    whether we are good or whether we are bad,
    whether we are acceptable for worshiping God
    or whether we have done things to cause us to be unacceptable;
    it does not matter if we offer sacrifices to God or if we do not;
    it does not matter if we do what we have promised God that we will do or if we do not;
    we all die.
    The same thing will happen to good people and to sinful people,
    to those who solemnly promise to do things for God and to those who are afraid to make such promises.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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