17. My sins would be sealed in a pouch,and you would cover my guilt.
18. “But instead, as mountains fall and crumbleand as rocks fall from a cliff,
19. as water wears away the stonesand floods wash away the soil,so you destroy people’s hope.
20. You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.You disfigure them in death and send them away.
21. They never know if their children grow up in honoror sink to insignificance.
22. They suffer painfully;their life is full of trouble.”