⁸ How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?

¹² And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.

²⁰ See, I have had orders to give blessing: and he has given a blessing which I have no power to take away.

²³ No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

²⁵ Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:

¹² Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.

¹³ But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.