Then the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”
Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?
And Balaam said to the ass, “Because you have made sport of me. I wish I had a sword in my hand, for then I would kill you.”
For with God nothing will be impossible.”
We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now;
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart.”
but was rebuked for his own transgression; a dumb ass spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.