13. Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
14. For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15. If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
16. When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
17. Until I went into the sanctuaries of ·God then understood I their end.
18. Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
19. How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
20. As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
21. When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,
22. Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.
23. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand;