15. If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16. When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;
17. Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
18. Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
19. How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
20. As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21. For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.