Numbers 22:29 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁹ Balaam answered the donkey, ‘You have made a fool of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you here and now.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ And Balaam said to the donkey, Because you have ridiculed and provoked me! I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.

Common English Bible

²⁹ Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you’ve tormented me. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Balaam responded, "Because you have deserved it, and you have mistreated me. If only I had a sword, so that I might pierce you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill. I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.

Numbers 22:29 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 30:34

‘Agreed,’ said Laban. ‘Let it be as you have said.’

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous care for the needs of their animals, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 12:16

Fools show their annoyance at once, but the prudent overlook an insult.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.

Numbers 22:30

The donkey said to Balaam, ‘Am I not your own donkey, which you have always ridden, to this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?’ ‘No,’ he said.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.