9. They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
10. Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
11. And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
12. Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
13. Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
14. And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
15. If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
16. And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
17. Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
18. Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
19. How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended-- consumed from terrors.
20. As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.