10. Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.
11. And they say, “How does God know?” and, “Does the Most High have knowledge?”
12. See, these are the wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
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.
24. You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor.