And Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to you, that you have beaten me these three times?
And Jehovah said to him, Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, Jehovah?
And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And 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, and I will set aside the understanding of the perceiving ones."
but had reproof of his lawbreaking, a dumb ass speaking in a man's voice, held back the madness of the prophet.