8. Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.
9. Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once:
10. But executing thy judgments by degrees thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed.
11. For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither didst thou for fear of any one give pardon to their sins.