Numbers 23:8
Numbers 23:8 King James Version (KJV)
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?
Numbers 23:6-10 The Message (MSG)
He went back and found him stationed beside his Whole-Burnt-Offering and with him all the nobles of Moab. Then Balaam spoke his message-oracle: Balak led me here from Aram, the king of Moab all the way from the eastern mountains. “Go, curse Jacob for me; go, damn Israel.” How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I damn whom GOD has not damned? From rock pinnacles I see them, from hilltops I survey them: Look! a people camping off by themselves, thinking themselves outsiders among nations. But who could ever count the dust of Jacob or take a census of cloud-of-dust Israel? I want to die like these right-living people! I want an end just like theirs!
Numbers 23:8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:8 New Century Version (NCV)
But God has not cursed them, so I cannot curse them. The LORD has not called down evil on them, so I cannot call down evil on them.
Numbers 23:8 American Standard Version (ASV)
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?
Numbers 23:8 New International Version (NIV)
How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:8 New King James Version (NKJV)
“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
Numbers 23:8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“How shall I curse those whom God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the LORD has not denounced?