Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:12:

• Kupsabiny: “A word which a wise person says is good. When it happens that a person listens to (it), it beats earrings and other beautiful things which are made of gold.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The rebuke of a wise man
  is more precious than a gold ornament.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The rebuking of a wise man to a man who likes to listen is more precious/valuable than the golden jewelries.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The listening-to good advice, it-can-be-compared to gold jewelry or earrings.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “When a wise person rebukes/warns someone who is willing to listen,
  that is as valuable as a gold ring or a gold chain.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:16:

• Kupsabiny: “A lazy person takes himself to be wise
  defeating (more than) seven councilors/advisers.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Lazy people think they are wiser
  than seven people who can give a correct answer.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A lazy man thinks that he is more wiser than the seven men who can-give a right reason.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The lazy-one incorrectly-thinks that he is wiser/more-intelligent than how-many people who are circumspect/cautious to answer.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Lazy people think that they are wiser than seven/several people
  who can answer others’ questions with good sense.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:20:

• Kupsabiny: “A greedy person never gets enough,
  like the place of the dead is always open.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Death and destruction are never satisfied.
  In the same way people’s desires” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Death has no satisfaction; also the desire of a man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Death and the place of the dead can absolutely never be satisfied, likewise also people.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “It is as though the place where the dead people are is always wanting more people to die and come there;
  and humans are always wanting to acquire more things, too.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:25:

• Kupsabiny: “Greed causes people to quarrel,
  but a person who trusts in God will be blessed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Greedy people tend to pick quarrels.
  But of all people,
  those who trust the Lord will prosper.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A selfish/greedy man only starts-up trouble, but a man who trusts in the LORD will-prosper.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The person who is-habitually-greedy, he is the one-who-starts quarrels, but all who trust in God, their lives will-become-better.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Greedy people cause trouble/strife;
  those who trust in Yahweh will prosper.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 30:2:

• Kupsabiny: “I am so foolish that I don’t deserve again to be called that a person.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “I am a person who is not worthy to be called human.
  I have no human sense.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “‘I am the most-senseless of all men.
  My thinking as-if is not of a man.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “I am like an animal, I am not counted as a person because I have no mind/thoughts.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “It seems that I am very stupid;
  I do not deserve to be considered to be a human;
  I do not have the good sense that humans should have.” (Source: Translation for Translators)