13 Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash  in innocency my hands,
         
                                
                        14 And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every  morning.
         
                                
                        15 If I have said, `I recount thus,` Lo, a generation of Thy  sons I have deceived.
         
                                
                        16 And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine  eyes,
         
                                
                        17 Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to  their latter end.
         
                                
                        18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast  caused them to fall to desolations.
         
                                
                        19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They  have been ended -- consumed from terrors.