Ẹni rere kì í kú sípò ìkà.
Character against beauty, wealth and destiny
Ìpilẹ̀
Ẹni rere kì í kú sípò ìkà.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Ẹni rere a-good person kì í kú does-not die sípò ìkà in-the-position of-a-wicked-person.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"A good person does not die the death of an evil person."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
The manner of a death is fitted to the character of the life.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
Owomoyela: "Each person will be recompensed according to his or her character"
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
Ìkà is wickedness or cruelty. Ipò, position or station, is doing double work: it means both the social standing and the physical posture in which a person is found dead. The proverb is consoling when said of a good person's death and threatening when said of a living wicked one, and both uses are current.