Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth, and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?”
But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
For no word from God will ever fail.”
The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now.”