² As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

⁸ How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

¹² It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

⁴ Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

⁵ Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

²⁸ Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.

²⁹ Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

⁴³ And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

² Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

²⁸ Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

⁸ As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.