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30 They ignored my counsel,
    they spurned all my reproof;
31 Well, then, they shall eat the fruit[a] of their own way,
    and with their own devices be glutted.
32 For the straying of the naive kills them,
    the smugness of fools destroys them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:31 Eat the fruit: sinners are punished by the consequences of their sins. Wisdom’s voice echoes that of the parents in vv. 8–19. The parents mediate wisdom in vv. 8–19, but here Wisdom herself speaks.

30 Since they would not accept my advice
    and spurned my rebuke,(A)
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(B)
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(C)

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