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"How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?"
— Numbers 23:8, NET Bible
“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?”
“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied? ”
“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?”
“How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?”
“How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?”
“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?”
Then the LORD put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said,“Return to Balak, and speak what I tell you.”
So he returned to him, and he was still standing by his burnt offering, he and all the princes of Moab.
Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’
How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?
For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let the end of my life be like theirs.”
Balaam Relocates Then Balak said to Balaam,“What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!”