When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
2 Peter 2:16 - English Standard Version 2016 but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But he was rebuked for his own transgression when a dumb beast of burden spoke with human voice and checked the prophet's madness. [Num. 22:21-31.] American Standard Version (1901) but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet. Common English Bible But Balaam was rebuked for his wrongdoing. A donkey, which has no voice, spoke with a human voice and put a stop to the prophet’s madness. Catholic Public Domain Version Yet truly, he had a correction of his madness: the mute animal under the yoke, which, by speaking with a human voice, forbid the folly of the prophet. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet. |
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
The days of punishment have come; the days of recompense have come; Israel shall know it. The prophet is a fool; the man of the spirit is mad, because of your great iniquity and great hatred.
If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
And I punished them often in all the synagogues and tried to make them blaspheme, and in raging fury against them I persecuted them even to foreign cities.