^{12 Ref} Lo, these `are' the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

^{13 Ref} Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

^{14 Ref} And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.

^{15 Ref} If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

^{16 Ref} And I think to know this, Perverseness it `is' in mine eyes,

^{17 Ref} Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

^{18 Ref} Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

^{19 Ref} How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.