Moreover Job continued his discourse, and said:
Job further continued his discourse, and said:
So he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, And the utterance of the man whose eyes are opened;
And he took up his oracle and said: “Balak the king of Moab has brought me from Aram, From the mountains of the east. ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, And come, denounce Israel!’
Like the legs of the lame that hang limp Is a proverb in the mouth of fools.
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.
Then he took up his oracle and said: “The utterance of Balaam the son of Beor, The utterance of the man whose eyes are opened,
Your platitudes are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
