Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 11:3:
- Kupsabiny: “The goodness of straight/righteous people guards/keeps them,
but those who have gone astray, their evilness destroys them.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation) - Newari: “Those who do good work,
are guided along the good path.
Those who do evil work
are ruined by their evil work.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “The righteous man knows what he is going to do because his way-of-living is right, but a deceitful man will-be-destroyed because his way-of-living is not right.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “The trustworthiness of a righteous/just person, that is what leads him, but the crafty-one, he is ruined because of his craftiness.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “People who are good are guided by doing what is honest;
those who are not honest will be ruined because of the wrong things that they do.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
