Numbers 23:8

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Proverbs 26:2

Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying, so the causeless curse does not alight. [Num. 23:8.]

Isaiah 44:25

[I am the Lord] Who frustrates the signs and confounds the omens [upon which the false prophets' forecasts of the future are based] of the [boasting] liars and makes fools of diviners, Who turns the wise backward and makes their knowledge foolishness, [I Cor. 1:20.]

Numbers 22:12

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

Numbers 22:6

Now come, I beg of you, curse this people for me, for they are too powerful for me. Perhaps I may be able to defeat 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

You see, I have received His command to bless Israel. He has blessed, and I cannot reverse or qualify it.

Numbers 23:23

Surely there is no enchantment with or against Jacob, neither is there any divination with or against Israel. [In due season and even] now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God wrought!

Numbers 23:7

Balaam took up his [figurative] speech and said: Balak, the king of Moab, has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse Jacob for me; and come, violently denounce Israel.