8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
5 Yahweh put a word in Balaam's mouth, and said, |Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.|
6 He returned to him, and behold, he was standing by his burnt offering, he, and all the princes of Moab.
7 He took up his parable, and said, |From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.
8 How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
9 For from the top of the rocks I see him. From the hills I see him. Behold, it is a people that dwells alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
10 Who can count the dust of Jacob, or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!|
23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?
23:8How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
23:8How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?
23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
23:8How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?
23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
23:8What — do I pierce? — God hath not pierced! And what — am I indignant? — Jehovah hath not been indignant!
23:8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?