"The LORD is far from the wicked" (15:29). Does the LORD not hear the prayers of the wicked?

The verse says, "The LORD is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous" (15:29). Earlier the chapter says, "The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight" (15:8) (tap prayer, abomination). Proverbs has prayer only three times in Hebrew, and the third is "He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination" (Proverbs 28:9). The same chapter also says, "he loves him who follows after righteousness" (Proverbs 15:9), and the book says elsewhere, "He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy" (Proverbs 28:13). Chapter 15 doesn't take up what happens when someone who has walked the way of the wicked turns and prays. These notes set the sayings side by side, don't say how they fit together, and apply them to no one's prayers today.