They angered [him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
Ver. 32. They angered him also at the waters of strife] Yet he made not the least semblance of it to Moses, but only bade him smite the rock, which, if he had then done, and no more, he had done right. God is Bagnal Chemah, master of his anger, Nahum 1:2, so was not meek Moses at this time. The best are miscarried by their passions sometimes, to their cost.
So that it went ill with Moses for their sakes] i.e. By their means he was kept out of Canaan, which was a great cross to him, and his repentance, as to that favour, came too late, for God was resolved.