“Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;”
He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble you and to test you so that in the end it might go well with you — the pedagogical purpose of manna is explicitly restated: humbling and testing serve the teleological aim of eventual flourishing. The wilderness journey's hardship is redeemed as preparation for blessing.
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