New Revised Standard Version
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”

Contemporary English Version
Then God got tired of them and said, "You never show good sense, and you don't understand what I want you to do."

New American Bible
Forty years I loathed that generation; I said: “This people’s heart goes astray; they do not know my ways.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.

forty

Numbers 14:33,34 Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert, . . .

Numbers 32:13 And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.

Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them:

Deuteronomy 2:14-16 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn: . . .

Hebrews 3:9,10,17 Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works, . . .

grieved

Genesis 6:6 It repented him that he had made man on the earth. And being touched inwardly with sorrow of heart,

Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God: whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption.

err

Isaiah 63:17 Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.

Hebrews 3:10,17 Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways. . . .

and they

Proverbs 1:7,22-29 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

Jeremiah 9:6 Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

John 3:19-21 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.