12. Here is what sinful people are like. They don't have a care in the world. They keep getting richer and richer.
13. It seems as if I have kept my heart pure without any reason. It didn't do me any good to wash my hands to show that I wasn't guilty of doing anything wrong.
14. Day after day I've been in pain. God has punished me every morning.
15. What if I had said, "I will speak as evil people do"? Then I wouldn't have been faithful to God's children.
16. I tried to understand it all. But it was more than I could handle.
17. It troubled me until I entered God's temple. Then I understood what will happen to bad people in the end.
18. God, I'm sure you will make them slip and fall. You will throw them down and destroy them.
19. It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.
20. A dream goes away when a person wakes up. Lord, it will be like that when you rise up. It will be as if those people were only a dream.