15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
    I would have betrayed (A)the generation of your children.

16 But when I thought how to understand this,
    it seemed to me (B)a wearisome task,
17 until I went into (C)the sanctuary of God;
    then I discerned their (D)end.

18 Truly you set them in (E)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed (F)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by (G)terrors!
20 Like (H)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when (I)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

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