13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.