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28 “When they cry for help, I will not answer.
    Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
29 For they hated knowledge
    and chose not to fear the Lord.
30 They rejected my advice
    and paid no attention when I corrected them.
31 Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
    choking on their own schemes.
32 For simpletons turn away from me—to death.
    Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.

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28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;(A)
    they will look for me but will not find me,(B)
29 since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.(C)
30 Since they would not accept my advice
    and spurned my rebuke,(D)
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(E)
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(F)

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