13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15. If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of your children.
16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18. Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
19. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20. As a dream when one awakes; so, O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.
21. Thus my soul was grieved, and I was pierced in my heart.
22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.