Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jeremiah 20:17:
- Kupsabiny: “because he should have killed me before I was born
(and/so) I would die in the stomach of my mother.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “For he did not kill me when I was still in the womb of my mother. Wish the womb of my mother would have been my place-of-burial, or wish she became-pregnant with-me until whenever.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- English: “I want that to happen to him because he did not kill me before I was born.
I wish that I had died in my mother’s womb,
and that my mother’s body would have been like my grave.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
