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73:18-20 You Will Destroy Them. Here is "their end" (v. 17): God has set the arrogant in slippery places, so that they are destroyed in a moment. This may imply that they will die suddenly and unexpectedly, which certainly does happen; more likely it speaks of the effect of death (see v. 20: you despise them as phantoms). "Phantom" (Hb. tselem) is often rendered "image"; the idea is that what is left over after they die is a "mere image" of the wicked person's personality--such a person does not have the prospect of a glad afterlife that the godly have.