⁴ I will put my teaching into a story; I will make my dark sayings clear with music.

² Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

³⁵ That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

⁸ With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

¹² Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,

³ So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

¹¹ And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

¹² Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

¹³ For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

¹⁴ And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

¹⁵ For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

²³ And in the later years of their kingdom, when their evil doings have become complete, there will come up a king full of pride and expert in dark sayings.

⁴⁹ Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

⁷ And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.