8What — do I pierce? — God hath not pierced! And what — am I indignant? — Jehovah hath not been indignant!


In Context

5 and Jehovah putteth a word in the mouth of Balaam, and saith, 'Turn back unto Balak, and thus thou dost speak.'

6 And he turneth back unto him, and lo, he is standing by his burnt-offering, he and all the princes of Moab.

7 And he taketh up his simile, and saith: 'From Aram he doth lead me — Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come — curse for me Jacob, And come — be indignant with Israel.

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

9 For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.

10 Who hath counted the dust of Jacob, And the number of the fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of upright ones, And let my last end be like his!'

Numbers 23:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, [whom] the LORD hath not defied?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:8How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD has not defied?