²³ Hence those unrighteous who lived a life of folly,
    you tormented through their own abominations.^(A)

²⁷ For by the things through which they suffered distress,
    being tortured by the very things they deemed gods,
They saw and recognized the true God whom formerly they had refused to know;
    with this, their final condemnation^[a] came upon them.^(A)

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.

²⁷ Whoever digs a pit falls into it;
    and a stone comes back upon the one who rolls it.^(A)