Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?”
The Lord said to him, “Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
And Balaam said to the donkey, “You have made me look stupid; I wish there were a sword in my hand, for I would kill you right now.”
For nothing will be impossible with God.”
For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.”
yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).