Numbers 23:8 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

What -- do I pierce? -- God hath not pierced! And what -- am I indignant? -- Jehovah hath not been indignant!

English ASV

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? And how shall I defy, whom Jehovah hath not defied?

English Amplified

How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

How can I curse those God has not cursed? Or how can I [violently] denounce those the Lord has not denounced?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

How can I curse what God has not cursed? How can I denounce what the Lord has not denounced?

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

How shall I curse whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I denounce whom Jehovah doth not denounce?

English EASY 2024

But I cannot curse these people, because God has not cursed them. I cannot speak against people that the Lord does not speak against.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

But God is not against them, so I cannot speak against them either! The Lord has not asked for bad things to happen to these people. So I cannot do that either.

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

English GNT (Good News Translation)

How can I curse what God has not cursed, Or speak of doom when the Lord has not?

English God's Word - GW 1995

How can I curse those whom God hasn't cursed? How can I condemn those whom the Lord hasn't condemned?

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

How can I curse someone God has not cursed? How can I denounce someone the LORD has not denounced?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

How will I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how will I defy whom the Lord has not defied?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

How can I curse one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

But how can I put a curse on people God hasn't cursed? How can I speak against people the Lord hasn't spoken against?

English NIV

How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

English NKJ 1982

“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? And how shall I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

English NLT

But how can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom the LORD has not condemned?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD has not denounced?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

But how can I curse What God has not cursed? How can I denounce A people God has not denounced?

English Tyndale 1537

How shall I curse whom God curseth not and how shall I defy whom the LORD defieth not?

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