³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,^(A)
    a passing breeze^(B) that does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled^(C) against him in the wilderness^(D)
    and grieved him^(E) in the wasteland!
⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;^(F)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(G)