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how would you say this in Latin:

What is wrong cannot be made right
What is lost cannot be recovered

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@rachc,

Those lines are from Ecclesiastes 1:15, Latin Vulgate Bible:

- perversi difficile corriguntur et stultorum infinitus est numerus

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@Francis,

Hey Francis! Thank you so much, are you able to break it down for me so I know what bits go with what bits :-) WAHOO

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@rachc,

also...I know the King James version says it differently: 'The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fulls is infinite'

but I really love the NLT version with its -what is wrong cannot be made right etc... I want to use this in a story I'm working on, can I get the direct translation of these words or does it stand the same?

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@rachc,

You should use http://translate.google.com/ in future to translate into diff languages.

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@brock9233,

Oh, yeah?

How crappy an advice is that?

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@brock9233,

While you are there, why not trying to translate "crappy advice" into Latin, with that translator?

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@Francis,

More wise words, with an excellent suggestion, from Francis.

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@rachc,

rachc wrote:

also...I know the King James version says it differently: 'The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fulls is infinite'

but I really love the NLT version with its -what is wrong cannot be made right etc... I want to use this in a story I'm working on, can I get the direct translation of these words or does it stand the same?

perversi -- crooked, wrong, perverse
difficile -- with difficuly
corriguntur -- are corrected, set right, straightened
et -- and
stultorum -- of fools
infinitus -- infinite, unbounded, countless
est -- is
numerus -- number, measure

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@George,

wow george, thanks man. do you have any idea about putting the NLT into Latin?

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@rachc,

Both the Latin Vulgate (which Francis quoted) and the NLT are translations
from the same original Hebrew. The NLT translated it into English and the
Latin Vulgate translated it into Latin.

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