complete verse (Job 17:14)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 17:14:

  • Kupsabiny: “I shall go and rot in the darkness
    I share news with worms as if they were my mother or sister.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “if I say to the grave ‘You are my father’,
    or to the worm ‘You are my mother’, or ‘my elder and younger sisters,’” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “I will- now -consider to be my father the place-of-burial, and I will-consider to be my mother and female siblings/(sisters) the worms that will-nibble me.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • English: “When they died, they were snatched away from their tents
    and brought to the one who rules over the dead.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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