Numbers 23:8 - The Scriptures 1998

⁸ “How do I curse whom Ě

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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?

Numbers 23:8 Cross References

Proverbs 26:2

As a bird wanders, as a swallow flies about, So a curse without cause does not come.

Isaiah 44:25

frustrating the signs of the babblers, and driving diviners mad, turning wise men backward, and making their knowledge foolish,

Numbers 22:12

And Elohim said to Bilʽ

Numbers 22:6

“And now, please come at once, curse this people for me, for they are too strong for me. It might be that I smite them and drive them out of the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:20

“See, I have received, to bless. And He has blessed, and I do not reverse it.

Numbers 23:23

“For there is no sorcery against Yaʽ

Numbers 23:7

And he took up his proverb and said, “Balaq the sovereign of Mo’aḇ