Numbers 22:29
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Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.

for now would

Proverbs 12:10,16 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish. . . .

Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

Context
The Angel and Balaam's Donkey
28And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said: What have I done to thee? Why strikest thou me, lo, now this third time? 29Balaam answered: Because thou hast deserved it, and hast served me ill: I would I had a sword that I might kill thee.30The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the like thing to thee. But he said: Never.…
Cross References
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Numbers 22:30
The ass said: Am not I thy beast, on which thou hast been always accustomed to ride until this present day? tell me if I ever did the like thing to thee. But he said: Never.

Proverbs 12:10
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that pursueth idleness is very foolish.

Lexicon
Balaam
בִּלְעָם֙ (bil·‘ām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1109: Balaam -- a prophet

answered
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

the donkey,
לָֽאָת֔וֹן (lā·’ā·ṯō·wn)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 860: A female donkey

“You have made a fool of me!
הִתְעַלַּ֖לְתְּ (hiṯ·‘al·lalt)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5953: To effect thoroughly, to glean, to overdo, maltreat, be saucy to, pain, impose

If
ל֤וּ (lū)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3863: If, would that!

I had
יֶשׁ־ (yeš-)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

a sword
חֶ֙רֶב֙ (ḥe·reḇ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword

in my hand,
בְּיָדִ֔י (bə·yā·ḏî)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

I would kill you
הֲרַגְתִּֽיךְ׃ (hă·raḡ·tîḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2026: To smite with deadly intent

right now!”
עַתָּ֖ה (‘at·tāh)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 6258: At this time


Additional Translations
Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”And Balaam said to the ass, Because you have mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill you.

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.

And Balaam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me; and if I had had a sword in my hand, I would now have killed thee.

And Balaam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee!

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

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

Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you have mocked me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would have killed you."

and Balaam saith to the ass, 'Because thou hast rolled thyself against me; oh that there were a sword in my hand, for now I had slain thee;'
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