¹⁷ They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’^(A)

¹⁰ For forty years^(A) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(B)
    and they have not known my ways.’^(C)

²⁹ since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.^(A)