Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
but he was rebuked for his iniquity: a dumb donkey speaking with a man’s voice restrained the madness of the prophet.
For with God nothing will be impossible.”
So the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord?
For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.
And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have abused me. I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!”