Deuteronomy 32:26-28

American Standard Version

²⁶ I said, I would scatter them afar,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should judge amiss,
Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted,
And Jehovah hath not done all this.
²⁸ For they are a nation void of counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.