Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now! ”
“Good,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
A righteous man cares about his animal’s health, but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.
A fool’s displeasure is known at once, but whoever ignores an insult is sensible.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: there is one fate for everyone. In addition, the hearts of people are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live — after that they go to the dead.
But the donkey said, “Am I not the donkey you’ve ridden all your life until today? Have I ever treated you this way before? ” “No,” he replied.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.