Ọwọ́ ẹni la fi ńtú ìwà ara ẹni ṣe.
Ìpilẹ̀
Ọwọ́ ẹni la fi ńtú ìwà ara ẹni ṣe.
Ìtumọ̀ ọ̀rọ̀-sí-ọ̀rọ̀
- Ọwọ́ ẹni one's own hands la fi ńtú ìwà ara ẹni ṣe is-what we use to undo-and-remake one's own character.
Ìtumọ̀ Gẹ̀ẹ́sì
"One's own hands are what one uses to mend one's fortune."
Orísun náà kò dárúkọ ẹni tí ó túmọ̀ rẹ̀.
Ohun tí ó túmọ̀ sí
Character is repairable, and only by its owner.
Ìgbà tí a ń lò ó
Owomoyela: "Each person's fortune is in his or her own hands"
Àkíyèsí lórí ìtumọ̀
Owomoyela translates ìwà here as "fortune" rather than "character," which is a substantive interpretive choice: the Yorùbá word is the same one rendered "character" everywhere else in this file. The verb tú... ṣe is to untie and redo, used of rebuilding something that was badly made, so the literal sense is closer to "one's own hands are what one uses to remake one's own character." The disagreement between the printed translation and the literal reading is real and is left standing here. Confidence on the rendering: medium.