Numbers 22:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ And Balaam said to the ass, “Because you have made sport of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have ridiculed and provoked me! I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.

Common English Bible

²⁹ Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you’ve tormented me. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Balaam responded, "Because you have deserved it, and you have mistreated me. If only I had a sword, so that I might pierce you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill. I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.

Numbers 22:29 Cross References

Genesis 30:34

Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.”

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Proverbs 12:16

The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Numbers 22:30

And the ass said to Balaam, “Am I not your ass, upon which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever accustomed to do so to you?” And he said, “No.”

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.