The LORD opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Bil`am, What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?
The LORD said to him, *Who made man's mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn't it I, the LORD?
Bil`am said to the donkey, Because you have mocked me, I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed you.
For everything spoken by God is possible.*
For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
For it is written, *I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.*
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.