Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Proverbs 31:3:
- Kupsabiny: “The thing is that, do not waste your energy or your money on women. Such issues have destroyed many Kings” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
- Newari: “Do not spend your strength on women,
those [women] who make kings fall.” (Source: Newari Back Translation) - Hiligaynon: “waste your (sing.) time and money on women, for they were the reason that the kings were-destroyed.” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Do not (sing.) use-up your (sing.) strength and money on women, because many are the kings who have-been-ruined because of them.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- English: “Do not exhaust your energy having sex with women to whom you are not married,
with women who ruin kings by having sex with them.” (Source: Translation for Translators)
