²⁵ The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, and she thrust herself to the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he struck her again.

¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹² Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.