“You have made me look like a fool!” Balaam shouted. “If I had a sword with me, I would kill you!”
“All right,” Laban replied. “It will be as you say.”
The godly care for their animals, but the wicked are always cruel.
A fool is quick-tempered, but a wise person stays calm when insulted.
It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Already twisted by evil, people choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.
“But I am the same donkey you have ridden all your life,” the donkey answered. “Have I ever done anything like this before?” “No,” Balaam admitted.
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.