Psalms 95:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Forty years long, &c. Nor did they cease their discontented murmurings and distrust of me; but persisted in their stubborn infidelity and disobedience for the space of forty years; was I grieved with this generation Or rather, with that generation, which then lived, who were your ancestors; and said, It is a people that do err in their heart They not only sin through infirmity, and the violence and surprise of temptation, but their hearts are insincere and inconstant, and given to backsliding, and therefore there is no hope of their amendment. And they have not known Or, they do not know, namely, with a practical and useful knowledge; they do not rightly understand, nor duly consider, nor seriously lay to heart, my ways That is, either, 1st, My laws, or statutes, which are frequently called God's ways; or, rather, 2d, My works, as it is explained Psalms 95:9, which also are often so called. They do not know nor consider those great things which I wrought for them and among them.