2 Peter 2:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ but he was rebuked for his transgression: a dumb donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of the prophet.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ but was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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.

2 Peter 2:16 Cross References

Psalm 39:11

“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

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.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

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!

Hosea 9:7

The days of punishment have come, the days of retribution have come. Yisra’ĕ

Luke 16:11

“If, therefore, you have not been trustworthy in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?

Acts 26:11

“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.