wherefore

Numbers 22:28
Then the LORD opened the donkey's mouth, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?"

Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

Psalm 36:6
Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, Your judgments like the deepest sea. O LORD, You preserve man and beast.

Psalm 145:9
The LORD is good to all; His compassion rests on all He has made.

Psalm 147:9
He provides food for the animals, and for the young ravens when they call.

Jonah 4:11
So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120, 000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?"

withstand thee.

Numbers 22:22
Then God's anger was kindled because Balaam was going along, and the Angel of the LORD stood in the road to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him.

thy ways

Deuteronomy 23:4
For they did not meet you with food and water on your way out of Egypt, and they hired Balaam son of Beor from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

Proverbs 28:6
Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

Micah 6:5
My people, remember what Balak king of Moab counseled and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Acacia Grove to Gilgal, so that you may acknowledge the righteousness of the LORD."

Acts 13:10
and said, "O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

2 Peter 2:14, 15
Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed. . . .

before me

Numbers 22:20, 22, 35
That night God came to Balaam and said, "Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you." . . .

Exodus 3:2-6
There the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed! . . .

Proverbs 14:2
He who walks in uprightness fears the LORD, but the one who is devious in his ways despises Him.

Proverbs 28:18
He who walks with integrity will be delivered, but whoever is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.