Psalms 73:13-22

13All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

14For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

15If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

16But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,

17until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.

18Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

19How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!

20Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

21When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,

22I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.