17 My offences will be sealed up in a bag;you will cover over my sin.
18 ‘But as a mountain erodes and crumblesand as a rock is moved from its place,
19 as water wears away stonesand torrents wash away the soil,so you destroy a person’s hope.
20 You overpower them once for all, and they are gone;you change their countenance and send them away.
21 If their children are honoured, they do not know it;if their children are brought low, they do not see it.
22 They feel but the pain of their own bodiesand mourn only for themselves.’