Numbers 23:8
American Standard Version
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
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Numbers 23:8 in other translations
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
Numbers 23:8 in context
- 6And he returned unto him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
- 7And he took up his parable, and said, From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.
- 8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
- 9For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- 10Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!