14. For I have been stricken all day long And chastened every morning.
15. If I had said, "I will speak thus," Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.
16. When I pondered to understand this, It was troublesome in my sight
17. Until I came into the sanctuary of God; Then I perceived their end.
18. Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.
19. How they are destroyed in a moment! They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!
20. Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when aroused, You will despise their form.
21. When my heart was embittered And I was pierced within,