18. Surely Thou didst set them in slippery places; Thou castedst them down into mashu'ot (ruins, destruction).
19. How are they brought into desolation, as in a rega (moment)! They are utterly consumed with balahot (terrors).
20. As a chalom when one awaketh; so, Adonoi, when Thou art aroused [in judgment], Thou shalt despise their tzelem (shadowy form).
21. Thus my levav was grieved, and I was pricked in my mind.
22. So senseless was I, and ignorant; I was like behemot before Thee.