13. Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
14. And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
15. If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
16. And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
17. Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
18. Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
19. How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended-- consumed from terrors.
20. As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.