15If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have been untrue to the generation of thy 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 perceived their end. 18Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin. 19How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! 20They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms. In all periods there