Fools, because of their transgressions, and because of their iniquities, were afflicted.
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is no one who does good.
A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand this:
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge.
Immediately he followed her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
and I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,
Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter for you to have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of Hosts.
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?