Hebrews 3:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Grieved, х prosoochthisa (G4360)] - literally, burdened, 'displeased.' Compare "walk contrary," Leviticus 26:24; Leviticus 26:28.

That generation - "that" (C) implies estrangement. But A 'Aleph (') B Delta Vulgate, read 'this.'

Said - "grieved" at their first offence. Subsequently, when they hardened their heart in unbelief, He sware in His wrath (Hebrews 3:11): an ascending gradation (cf. Hebrews 3:17-18).

And they have not known, х autoi (G846) de (G1161)] - they perceived I was displeased with them, 'yet these very persons' did not a whit the more wish to know my ways (Bengel): cf. "but they," Psalms 106:43.

Not known my ways - practically and believingly; the "ways" in which I would have had them go, to reach my rest (Exodus 18:20).

Hebrews 3:10

10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.