complete verse (Jonah 4:11)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Jonah 4:11:

  • Kupsabiny: “And now, Jonah, what might eat/cause me, too, not to feel sorry about/have mercy for a big city like Nineveh which has children who are more than one hundred twenty thousand who do not know anything? And even again, there are even many domestic animals.’” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
  • Newari: “Shouldn’t my heart be broken over such a great city as Nineveh which has more than 120,000 children who don’t know anything as well as innumerable cattle?"” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
  • Hiligaynon: “Should- I not have-had -mercy-upon/have-compassion-upon Nineve, upon that great/big city with more-than 120,000 people who do- not -know about my law, and yet with many animals/livestock?’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
  • Kankanaey: “Is it not perhaps rightful also that I am-merciful to those who inhabit the mutually-reported-about city Nineve? There there-are more than 120,000 children who are still not able-to-know good and evil. There are also there many animals.’” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
  • English: “But there are more than 120,000 people in Nineveh who are very young, and because of that, they cannot tell which is their right hand and which is their left hand, and there are also many cattle, and none of these have done anything to displease me. So is it not right for me to be concerned about the people of that huge city, and not want to destroy them?/it is certainly right for me to be concerned about the people of that huge city and not want to destroy them! ’” (Source: Translation for Translators)
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