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Proverbs 1:32
For the waywardness of the simple will slay them,
from Wisdom Calls Aloud, Proverbs 1:20-33
What it says

The waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

What it is doing

This verse shows folly as self-ruinous even without external enemies.

In context

20Wisdom calls out in the street, 21in the main concourse she cries aloud, 22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? 23If you had repented at my rebuke, 24Because you refused my call, 25because you neglected all my counsel, 26in turn I will mock your calamity; 27when your dread comes like a storm, 28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; 29For they hated knowledge 30They accepted none of my counsel; 31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, 32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, 33But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety,