12. Behold, these are the wicked.Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
13. Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,and washed my hands in innocence,
14. For all day long I have been plagued,and punished every morning.
15. If I had said, “I will speak thus”;behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16. When I tried to understand this,it was too painful for me;
17. Until I entered God’s sanctuary,and considered their latter end.
18. Surely you set them in slippery places.You throw them down to destruction.
19. How they are suddenly destroyed!They are completely swept away with terrors.
20. As a dream when one wakes up,so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21. For my soul was grieved.I was embittered in my heart.
22. I was so senseless and ignorant.I was a brute beast before you.
23. Nevertheless, I am continually with you.You have held my right hand.