13. Is it in vain that I have kept my heart pure,washed my hands in innocence?
14. For I am afflicted day after day,chastised every morning.
15. Had I thought, “I will speak as they do,”I would have betrayed this generation of your children.
16. Though I tried to understand all this,it was too difficult for me,
17. Till I entered the sanctuary of Godand came to understand their end.
18. You set them, indeed, on a slippery road;you hurl them down to ruin.
19. How suddenly they are devastated;utterly undone by disaster!
20. They are like a dream after waking, Lord,dismissed like shadows when you arise.
21. Since my heart was embitteredand my soul deeply wounded,