Numbers 22:27

New American Bible - revised edition

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord there, she lay down under Balaam. Balaam’s anger flared up and he beat the donkey with his stick.

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The wise person is cautious and turns from evil; the fool is reckless and gets embroiled.

Know this, my dear brothers: everyone should be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath,

Then the angel of the Lord again went ahead, and stood next in a passage so narrow that there was no room to move either to the right or to the left.