Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 16:23:

• Kupsabiny: “A wise person analyses something carefully before talking,
  and his words corrects/brings back people.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Wise people speak
  only after careful consideration of the issues.
  and they win the hearts
  of those who listen to what they say.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “A wise man surely guards what he says, therefore others can-learn from him.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The wise-person, his way of speaking is careful/circumspect and persuasive.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Those who are wise think carefully before they talk,
  and as a result they are able to influence/persuade others to do what is right.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 17:22:

• Kupsabiny: “If/when a person is joyful/happy his body is healthy,
  but if he is annoyed/angry, his bones breaks (he loses hope and strength).” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “A happy heart is like good medicine,
  If [you] are always feeling broken-hearted
  [your] bones will dry up.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “If you (sing.) are happy, it can-make- your (sing.) body -healthy/[lit. good], but if you (sing.) are sad, it can-make- you (sing.) -sick.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Happiness causes-(one)-to-be-strong like medicine, but sorrow, it causes- the body to-be-weak.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Being cheerful is like swallowing good medicine;
  being discouraged/gloomy all the time will drain away your energy/cause you to become weak.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 19:2:

• Kupsabiny: “It is not good for a person to rush into things/words without thinking,
  and/or rush quickly and then fall into fire.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “It’s not enough to have zeal
  without insight,
  work done in haste will be ruined.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It is) not good that you (sing.) are zealous you (sing.) do- not -have -knowledge. (It is) not also good for you (sing.) to-be-hasty for you (sing.) could- easily -do wrong.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The resolve/persistence of a person is of-no-use if he knows nothing. The one who is-in-a-hurry, he easily gets-lost.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Being enthusiastic but not thinking carefully about what we are about to do is not good;
  doing things hastily can cause us a lot of trouble.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 20:5:

• Kupsabiny: “The thoughts of a person is like a well where water is deep,
  but it is a wise person who draws that water.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “A person’s thoughts are like water in a deep pit,
  people having wisdom will draw them [the thoughts] out.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “(It is) possible that the thinking of a man is like deep water, but if you (sing.) are wise you (sing.) can-fathom/understand it.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “The mind/thoughts of a person are deep (connotes hard to understand) like the deep (different word) ocean, but a wise-person can find-out-about (them).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “Just as it is difficult to bring up water from a deep well, it is difficult to know what people are thinking,
  but someone who has good sense/insight will be able to find out what people are thinking.” (Source: Translation for Translators)

Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 22:8:

• Kupsabiny: “A person who sows arrogance gets/reaps suffering,
  and the authority/power that he uses to oppress other people will be destroyed.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “Anyone who sows evil will harvest evil.
  And their injustice will also end.
  [they will be defeated]” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “The one-who-sow wickedness will-harvest destruction, and his cause-to-harm others will- now -stop.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• Kankanaey: “Whoever plants what is not right, problems are what he harvests, and afterwards his hardshipping of others because of his anger will end.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
• English: “If you plant corn or rice, corn or rice will grow;
  similarly, if you act unjustly, you will have disasters ;
  and if you try to harm/oppress people because you are angry with them,
  you will not be able to harm them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)