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,
22 I was stupid and could not understand;I was like a brute beast in your presence.