³⁸ But he is compassionate.
    He forgave their sin.
        He did not destroy them.
    He restrained his anger many times.
        He did not display all of his fury.
³⁹ He remembered that they were only flesh and blood,
    a breeze that blows and does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness!
    How often they caused him grief in the desert!