When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.* Selah.
2 Peter 2:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A mute donkey spoke with a man's voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. 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 rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.* Selah.
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Yisra'el will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.