Deuteronomy 32:27

had I not feared provocation by the enemy , lest their adversaries should misunderstand , lest they should say , Our hand is triumphant , it was not the Lord who did all this .

but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.`”

Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.