⁸ How shall I curse, whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy, whom Yahweh has not defied?

¹² God said to Balaam, You shall not go with them; you shall not curse the people; for they are blessed.

²⁰ Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.

²³ Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What has God done!

²⁵ who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

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.

¹³ You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the star-gazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.