Numbers 23:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁸ How can I curse whom God hasn’t cursed? How can I denounce whom God hasn’t denounced?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ How shall I curse him, whom God has not cursed? For what reason would I condemn him, whom the Lord does not condemn?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Numbers 23:8 Cross References

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of soothsayers and makes fools of diviners; who turns back the wise and makes their knowledge foolish;

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

Numbers 22:6

Come now, curse this people for me, since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:20

See, I received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.

Numbers 23:23

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, no divination against Israel; now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying, “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, denounce Israel!’