Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 22:6:

• Kupsabiny: “A child should be corrected early while (s/he) is still young,
  so that when (s/he) is grown up, lives uprightly.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Cause your children to follow the good path,
  They will continue following this same path into old age.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “Teach a child a right way-of-life, and he will-remember that even if he is old already.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Teach your children the way-of-life they ought to follow, and when they get-big (i.e., grow up), they will persevere in following-it.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If you train/teach children to do what is right,
  all during their life they will act/behave in that manner.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 25:4:

• Kupsabiny: “Silver is purified so that the maker/craftsman (can) produce a good thing.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Purify the silver,
  then after that,
  you can make something valuable from it.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It) should be-taken-out first the things-that-are-mixed-in the silver before this will- be-formed/shaped by the silversmith.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “It-is-necessary that gold and silver be-cleaned to-be-made-into valuable things.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If workers burn out the impure bits that are in silver,
  a man who makes things from silver can make something beautiful from the silver.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 26:8:

• Kupsabiny: “When/If a foolish person is raised up/honored, that is sheer stupidity,
  it is like praising a person who has tied a stone in/to a sling.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Honoring a fool
  is like throwing a rock
  which has been tied to the sling.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “That is foolishness if you (sing.) will-tie a stone to a sling-shot which you (sing.) used-as-bullet; the same as you (sing.) honor a foolish-one.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “One who praises a foolish-person is like one-who-ties- a rock -to the slingshot.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Tying a stone in a sling so that it cannot be thrown at a target
  is as foolish as honoring a foolish person.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 27:12:

• Kupsabiny: “A wise person does not go near where there is trouble,
  but the foolish one heads there and feels the consequences.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “The prudent foresee impending trouble,
  and try to avoid it.
  But the idiot goes directly into disaster
  and has trouble.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A wise man stays-away if he meets disaster, but a man who is not wise does- not -stay-away, therefore he suffers.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The circumspect (person), he can-see a problem that will-arrive and avoid-it, but the one who knows nothing is reckless/impetuous, so he experiences hardship.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Those who have good sense will realize that there is something dangerous ahead, and they will hide;
  those who do not have good sense just keep going, and later they will suffer because of doing that.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 28:17:

• Kupsabiny: “Do not defend a murderer,
  because his words/deeds will follow him to (his) death.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “A person who has guilt feelings
  from having killed someone
  will be a fugitive until he dies.
  Don’t anyone help him!” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A man who is-disturbed by his conscience because of his killing a man will-flee wherever/anywhere until he will-die. You (plur.) do- not -help him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “One who has-committed-murder is always running-away, do not (sing.) help him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Those who are guilty of murdering another person
  will be fugitives/keep running away until they die;
  do not help them to escape.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 29:21:

• Kupsabiny: “If a slave is given special care/whatever he wants from childhood,
  (he) will overturn/bring trouble to people later.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “If, from childhood, servants are given
  whatever they ask for
  later on they will plunder everything you have.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If you (sing.) just pamper/(give-everything-they-want) your (sing.) servant from his youth, in the end he will-become your (sing.) problem.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The slave that you (sing.) exceedingly spoil/pamper starting-from his childhood (lit. smallness), he will cause- you (sing.) -sorrow at the (lit. its) end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If someone gives his servants everything that they want, starting from when they are young,
  some day those servants will take from him everything that he owns.” (Source: Translation for Translators)