13. Clearly, then, I gain nothing by keeping my thoughts pure! What good is it to keep myself from sin?
14. God, I suffer all day long, and you punish me every morning.
15. I wanted to tell others these things, but that would have made me a traitor to your people.
16. I tried hard to understand all this, but it was too hard for me.
17. But then, God, I went to your Temple, and I understood what will happen to the wicked.
18. Clearly, you have put them in danger. You make it easy for them to fall and be destroyed.
19. Trouble can come suddenly, and they will be ruined. Terrible things can happen to them, and they will be finished.
20. Then they will be like a dream that we forget when we wake up. You will make them disappear like the monsters in our dreams.
21-22. I was so stupid. I thought about such people and became upset. God, I was upset and angry with you! I acted like a senseless animal.
23. But I am always with you. You hold my hand.
24. You lead me and give me good advice, and later you will lead me to glory.