Numbers 23:8
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
In context
6 So he returned to Balak, who was standing there beside his burnt offering, with all the princes of Moab.
7 And Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
8 How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
9 For I see them from atop the rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. Behold, a people dwelling apart, not reckoning themselves among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Numbers 23:8 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?
- KJV King James Version
- How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
- WEB World English Bible
- How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?
- ASV American Standard Version
- How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- What — do I pierce? — God hath not pierced! And what — am I indignant? — Jehovah hath not been indignant!
- DBY Darby Translation
- How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?
- WBS Webster Bible
- How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?