Numbers 23:8

WEB

⁸How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom the LORD has not defied?

KJV

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

BSB

⁸How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the LORD has not denounced?

FBV

⁸But how can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I condemn what the Lord has not condemned?

Extra References

Numbers 23:23

²³Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’

Numbers 23:20

²⁰Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.

Isaiah 44:25

²⁵who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Numbers 22:12

¹²God said to Balaam, “You shall not go with them. You shall not curse the people, for they are blessed.”

¹²“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail. ¹³You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.