Numbers 23:8 “How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce thos…”

Numbers 23:8

How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

World English Bible

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

American Standard Version

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

Geneva Bible 1599

How shall I curse, where God hath not cursed? or howe shall I detest, where the Lord hath not detested?

Darby Translation

How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?

Young's Literal Translation

What — do I pierce? — God hath not pierced! And what — am I indignant? — Jehovah hath not been indignant!

Bible in Basic English

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?

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Cross references

“How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?”

Numbers 23:23 Isaiah 44:25 Numbers 23:20 Isaiah 47:12 Isaiah 47:13

Numbers 23:23 · BSB

For there is no spell against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done!’

Isaiah 44:25 · BSB

who foils the signs of false prophets and makes fools of diviners, who confounds the wise and turns their knowledge into nonsense,

Numbers 23:20 · BSB

I have indeed received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot change it.

Isaiah 47:12 · BSB

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

Isaiah 47:13 · BSB

You are wearied by your many counselors; let them come forward now and save you— your astrologers who observe the stars, who monthly predict your fate.

Also

Numbers 22:12

Numbers 22:12 · BSB

But God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7And 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!’

9For 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.

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