Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 20:3:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who keeps away from quarrel is honored,
  but a person who is short tempered is foolish.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Fools try to pick quarrels.
  It is honorable to avoid them [quarrels].” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A man who stays-away from trouble is-honored; only fools like trouble.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “It is honored behavior to go-far-from quarrelling/fighting. It is only the foolish-person who likes to join-in-quarrelling.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “People respect those who stay away from disputes/arguments;
  foolish people love to quarrel.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

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)