Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageSome became fools through their rebellious ways and suffered for their own wrongdoing.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GFools — because of their rebellious way and their iniquities — suffered affliction.
KJV
King James VersionFools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleFools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Footnotes
*Evilim* (אֱוִילִים) = fools in the moral-theological sense of Proverbs — not those of low intelligence but those who suppress the knowledge of YHWH and live by appetite rather than wisdom (cf. Ps. 14:1; Prov. 1:7). This third stanza is distinctive: it is the only one where the cause is explicitly the people's own sin — the affliction is consequential, not arbitrary. FOG keeps "fools" to preserve the Hebraic wisdom register; FOG Message adds "became fools" — making foolishness a chosen path rather than a fixed condition.
