14 For all the day long I have been strickenand rebuked every morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17 until I went into the sanctuary of God;then I discerned their end.
18 Truly you set them in slippery places;you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed in a moment,swept away utterly by terrors!
20 Like a dream when one awakes,O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.