◄ Numbers 22:29 ►
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Good News Translation
Balaam answered, "Because you have made a fool of me! If I had a sword, I would kill you."

New Revised Standard Version
Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a fool of me! I wish I had a sword in my hand! I would kill you right now!”

Contemporary English Version
"You made me look stupid!" Balaam answered. "If I had a sword, I'd kill you here and now!"

New American Bible
“You have acted so willfully against me,” said Balaam to the donkey, “that if I only had a sword at hand, I would kill you here and now.”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Numbers 22:28
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