13. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
14. And I have been plagued all day and rebuked every morning.
15. If I had said, “I will speak thus,” behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children’s generation.
16. When I thought about how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes
17. until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate.
18. Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
19. How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
20. Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
21. When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,
22. then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was like the beasts.
23. But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.