12. Behold, such are the wicked— always at ease and amassing wealth.
13. Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
14. For all day I have been stricken, my chastisement comes every morning.
15. If I had said: “I will speak thus,” surely I would have betrayed a generation of Your children.
16. But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—
17. until I entered the Sanctuary of God, and perceived their end.
18. Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.
19. How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.
20. Like a dream when one awakes, thus when You arise, my Lord, You will despise their form.