“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.
2 Peter 2:16 - The Scriptures 2009 but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he was rebuked for his own transgression when a dumb beast of burden spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's madness. [Num. 22:21-31.] American Standard Version (1901) but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. Common English Bible But Balaam was rebuked for his wrongdoing. A donkey, which has no voice, spoke with a human voice and put a stop to the prophet’s madness. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, he had a correction of his madness: the mute animal under the yoke, which, by speaking with a human voice, forbid the folly of the prophet. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. |
“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.
I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one event to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are filled with evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and then – to the dead!
The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra’ĕl knows! The prophet is a fool, the ‘man of the Spirit’ is mad, because of the greatness of your crookedness, and great is the enmity.
If, therefore, you have not been trustworthy in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?”
“And punishing them often in all the congregations, I compelled them to blaspheme. And being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.