3:9 “There your fathers tested me and tried me, 1 and they saw my works for forty years.
3:10 “Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering 2 and they have not known my ways.’
3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” 3
1 tn Grk “tested me by trial.”
2 tn Grk “they are wandering in the heart.”
3 tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.