Numbers 23:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the  Lord has not denounced?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

Common English Bible

⁸ How can I curse whom God hasn’t cursed? How can I denounce whom God hasn’t denounced?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ How shall I curse him, whom God has not cursed? For what reason would I condemn him, whom the Lord does not condemn?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ How shall I curse him, whom God hath not cursed? By what means should I detest him, whom the Lord detesteth not?

Numbers 23:8 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 26:2

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow, an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Isaiah 44:25

who destroys the omens of the false prophets and makes fools of diviners; who confounds the wise and makes their knowledge foolishness;

Numbers 22:12

Then God said to Balaam, ‘You are not to go with them. You are not to curse this people, for they are blessed.’

Numbers 22:6

Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.’

Numbers 23:20

I have indeed received a command to bless; since he has blessed,  I cannot change it.

Numbers 23:23

There is no magic curse against Jacob and no divination against Israel. It will now be said about Jacob and Israel, ‘What great things God has done! ’

Numbers 23:7

Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains: ‘Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel! ’