11. And they say, “How can God know?Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12. Behold, these are the wicked;always at ease, they increase in riches.
13. All in vain have I kept my heart cleanand washed my hands in innocence.
14. For all the day long I have been strickenand rebuked every morning.
15. If I had said, “I will speak thus,”I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16. But when I thought how to understand this,it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17. until I went into the sanctuary of God;then I discerned their end.
18. Truly you set them in slippery places;you make them fall to ruin.