Deuteronomy 32:26-28

26 I said, “I want to cut them into pieces, I will cause the memory of them to disappear from among men,”

27 however, I feared the wrath of the enemy, that their adversaries would misunderstand and say, “Our hand is victorious, and the Lord has not done all this.”

28 For they are a nation devoid of counsel; there is no understanding in them.