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)