Numbers 23:8

Numbers 23:8 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

8How can I curse

those whom God has not cursed?

How can I denounce

those whom the Lord has not denounced?

8“How am I to put a curse on him upon whom God has not put a curse?

And how am I to curse him whom the Lord has not cursed?

8“How shall I curse those whom God has not cursed?

Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

8How can I curse those whom God has not cursed?

How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?

8How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed?

And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

8How shall I curse, where God hath not cursed? or howe shall I detest, where the Lord hath not detested?

8How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?

How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

8But how can I put a curse on

people God hasn’t cursed?

How can I speak against

people the Lord hasn’t spoken against?

8But I cannot curse these people, because God has not cursed them. I cannot speak against people that the Lord does not speak against.

8How do I pierce [when] God has not pierced? And how am I indignant [when] YHWH has not been indignant?