Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 20:16:

• Kupsabiny: “It is not good to stand for/be surety for the debt of a person whom you do not know,
  and when/if a person stands as surety of that debt, he takes his things as a pledge/surety.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Those who put up security
  on business deals
  for people they do not know
  are fools
  and their property will be taken as security.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If a man had-promised that he is going to pay you (sing.) the debt of a man whom he does not know, make sure that you (sing.) can-get from him a guarantee, even his clothes, so-that you (sing.) can-be-sure that he will-pay.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The one who stands-for (i.e., guarantees) a debt of a stranger/foreigner, the lender must hold his possessions to cause-to-be-certain that he will pay.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If you foolishly promise to a stranger that you will pay what he owes if he is unable to pay it ,
  you deserve to have someone take your coat from you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 21:18:

• Kupsabiny: “A wicked person is punished,
  and a righteous person is released/freed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The wicked themselves will have to bear the trouble
  which they try to give to the righteous.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The wicked and unfaithful are-punished so-that the righteous will-be-saved.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Sinners will endure the hardship/suffering that it is their purpose to cause- the righteous/just -to-experience.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Wicked people bring on themselves the sufferings
  that they were trying to cause righteous people to experience.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:17:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not go to your neighbor’s house all the time, because (it) may make him despise you and begin to refuse you.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Don’t go too often to your relatives’ place.
  If you do you it will make them annoyed [with you].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Like also if you (sing.) keep visiting your (sing.) neighbor, for he might get-tired-of-it and hate you (sing.).” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Do not continually go to the house of your (sing.) friend because he will become-tired-of you (sing.) and will not-like you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Do not go to your neighbor’s house very often to talk with him;
  if you go very often, he will get tired of listening to you and start to hate you.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:21:

• Kupsabiny: “A chatterbox stirs up strife,
  like how a log of wood can add heat to a fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Like charcoal for burning embers,
  like wood for fire,
  a quarrelsome person [kindles] disputes.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “As a charcoal causes-to-make-a-live-coal, and a firewood causes-to-light a fire, a quarrelsome (man) can-starts-up trouble.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Like the way coals and wood cause- fire -to-burn is the way a quarrelsome-person causes- quarreling -to-become-strong.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Putting charcoal on burning coals or putting wood on a fire causes the fire to keep burning;
  similarly, people who like to quarrel cause people to keep arguing.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:25:

• Kupsabiny: “Take you animals to where grass is plenty,
  and/but that place becomes short of grass, take them to another place.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “After the hay is harvested, new grass sprouts up.
  Until that time [i.e. when the new grass sprouts]
  branches and leaves are gathered in the high plateau.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Cut-down the grass; and while they grow again, cut-down also the grass on the mountains, so-that your (sing.) animals always have food.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “If you (sing.) have-cut the fodder on the mountain, it will grow again. Also sickle-cut (sing.) the rice-stalks at the harvest-season so-that the animals will have something to eat. If you (sing.) do all that,” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “After you cut the hay and store it to feed the animals in the winter while a new crop of hay is growing,” (Source: Translation for Translators)