Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 21:17:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who loves/lives in luxury will become poor,
  and a person who loves beer and oil/fat will not become rich/powerful.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Those who only find pleasure in drinking liquor
  will never be able to become rich.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A man who lavishes, who only wants- to-feast -as-much-as(he)-wants, will- never -get-rich but-rather in-fact will-be-poor.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “A person who searches for pleasures/entertainment will-become-poor. One who loves to drink expensive alcoholic-beverage and to use expensive perfumes will not become-rich.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Those who spend their money to buy things that give them pleasure/things that cause them to feel happy will become poor;
  those who love to spend money to buy wine and nice/fancy food will never become rich.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:16:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not stuff yourself with honey so that it does not make you throw up.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If [you] eat too much honey
  it will make you sick to your stomach.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “[You (sing.)] do not eat too much honey for you (sing.) might vomit.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If there-is honey that you (sing.) find, limit what you (sing.) eat. Do not (sing.) be-excessive-with-it lest it return to come-out of your (sing.) mouth.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If you find some honey, do not eat a lot of it,
  because doing that may cause you to vomit.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:20:

• Kupsabiny: “Like when a fire goes out when there is no firewood.
  also a quarrel subsides when there is no gossip/slander.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “When there is no wood, the fire will die,
  in the same way, when there are no gossips,
  there will be no quarrelling.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “As a fire goes-out if there is no firewood, quarrel stops also if there is no gossip.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The fire goes-out when there is no wood, also there-are-none who quarrel-together if there-are-none who gossip.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If there is no more firewood to put on the fire, the fire will go out;
  similarly , if there are no people who gossip/tell people things that are not true, quarreling will end.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:24:

• Kupsabiny: “because wealth does not last forever,
  and even the rulership of a country is like that.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “For possessions do not last forever.
  The crown does not remain
  from generation to generation.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “for wealth and honor do- not -last-long.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “because wealth does not remain-unchanged forever. Even the honor of a king, it will not remain-unchanged in his grandchildren in a future day.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “because the money that you acquired from selling animals previously will not last/stay with you forever;
  similarly , governments certainly do not last forever.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:1:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who does not accept to be advised is destroyed
  the one who continues to have a dry head (be stubborn, not respond).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “People who are hostile towards all rebuke
  will suddenly be destroyed,
  no matter how hard they try to stop it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A man who causes- his heart -to-become even more -harder even-though how many times he has-been-rebuked already will- suddenly -be-destroyed and no longer can-rise-up.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The one who is always admonished but keeps-hardening his mind (i.e., keeps being stubborn), later indeed his destruction will arrive that has no remedy.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Some people remain stubborn even though they are often reproved/warned about doing what is wrong,
  but some day they will be crushed/ruined, and nothing will be able to heal them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)