Numbers 23:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?

Cross References

Proverbs 26:2

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.

Isaiah 44:25

Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

Numbers 22:12

And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.

Numbers 22:6

Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.

Numbers 23:20

See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.

Numbers 23:23

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

Numbers 23:7

And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.