¹⁷ They were the ones who said to God, ‘Leave us alone! ’
and ‘What can the Almighty do to us? ’^[a](A)

¹⁰ For forty years I was disgusted with that generation;
I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray;
they do not know my ways.’^(A)

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,^(A)