Surely you set them in slippery places.
You throw them down to destruction.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Psalms 73:18 in context
Psalms 73:15–21
15
If I had said, “I will speak thus”,
behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16
When I tried to understand this,
it was too painful for me—
17
until I entered God’s sanctuary,
and considered their latter end.
18
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Surely you set them in slippery places.
You throw them down to destruction.
19
How they are suddenly destroyed!
They are completely swept away with terrors.
20
As a dream when one wakes up,
so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21
For my soul was grieved.
I was embittered in my heart.
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