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17 So I took my questions to the True God,
    and in His sanctuary I realized something so chilling and final: their lives have a deadly end.
18 Because You have certainly set the wicked upon a slippery slope,
    You’ve set them up to slide to their destruction.
19 And they won’t see it coming. It will happen so fast:
    first, a flash of terror, and then desolation.

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17 till I entered the sanctuary(A) of God;
    then I understood their final destiny.(B)

18 Surely you place them on slippery ground;(C)
    you cast them down to ruin.(D)
19 How suddenly(E) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away(F) by terrors!

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