Numbers 23:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ How will I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how will I defy whom the Lord has not defied?

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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?

Numbers 23:8 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 26:2

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse without cause shall not alight.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of the boasters and makes fools out of diviners, who turns wise men backward and makes their knowledge foolish,

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “You will not go with them. You will not curse the people because they are blessed.”

Numbers 22:6

And now, please come curse this people for me because they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I will prevail, and we will defeat them, and I will drive them out of the land because I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

Numbers 23:20

Behold, I have received a commandment to bless, and He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

Numbers 23:23

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, nor is there any divination against Israel. For this time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

Numbers 23:7

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying: “Balak has brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east, saying, ‘Come, curse Jacob for me, and come, defy Israel!’