Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said,
Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
I will incline my ear to a proverb: I will disclose my riddles upon the harp.
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
And he took up his oracle, and said, Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse for me Jacob, and come, denounce Israel.
And he took up his oracle, and said, Balaam the son of Beor has said, and the man whose eyes are open has said:
