Numbers 23:8 - Tree of Life Version

⁸ How can I curse one whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce one whom Adonai 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?

Numbers 23:8 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 26:2

Like a fluttering sparrow or a flying swallow, so an undeserved curse does not land.

Isaiah 44:25

causing the omens of boasters to fail, making fools of diviners, turning wise men backward and making their knowledge foolish,

Numbers 22:12

God said to Balaam, “Do not go with them! Do not curse them, for they are blessed!”

Numbers 22:6

Come now, curse this people for me, because they are too strong for me! Perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them away from the country. I know that whoever you bless will be blessed and whoever you curse will be accursed!”

Numbers 23:20

Look, I received a command to bless. He has blessed—I cannot change it!

Numbers 23:23

There is no sorcery effective against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel! Now it will be said of Jacob and Israel, ‘See what God has done!’

Numbers 23:7

Then he uttered his oracle and said, “From Aram, Balak brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the east: ‘Come! Curse Jacob for me! ‘Come! Denounce Israel!’