Numbers 23:11
Good News Translation
Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them."

New Revised Standard Version
Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but now you have done nothing but bless them.”

Contemporary English Version
Balak said, "What are you doing? I asked you to come and place a curse on my enemies. But you have blessed them instead!"

New American Bible
“What have you done to me?” cried Balak to Balaam. “It was to lay a curse on my foes that I brought you here; but instead, you have blessed them!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.

Numbers 23:7,8 And taking up his parable, he said: Balac king of the Moabites hath brought me from Aram, from the mountains of the east: Come, said he, and curse Jacob: make haste and detest Israel. . . .

Numbers 22:11,17 Saying: Behold a people that is come out of Egypt, hath covered the face of the land: come and curse them, if by any means I may fight with them and drive them away. . . .

Numbers 24:10 And Balac being angry against Balaam, clapped his hands together and said: I called thee to curse my enemies, and thou on the contrary hast blessed them three times.

Psalm 109:17-20 But persecuted the poor man and the beggar; and the broken in heart, to put him to death. . . .

Context
Balaam's First Oracle
10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and know the number of the stock of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the just, and my last end be like to them. 11And Balac said to Balaam: What is this that thou dost? I sent for thee to curse my enemies: and thou contrariwise blessest them.12He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?…
Cross References
Nehemiah 13:2
Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water: and they hired against them Balaam, to curse them, and our God turned the curse into blessing.

Numbers 23:12
He answered him: Can I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth?

Numbers 23:10
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