the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Darby's French Translation
Nombres 22:29
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Et Balaam répondit à l'ânesse: C'est que tu t'es moquée de moi. Que n'ai-je une épée en ma main! je t'aurais déjà tuée.
Balaam répondit à l'ânesse: C'est parce que tu t'es moquée de moi; si j'avais une épée dans la main, je te tuerais à l'instant.
Et Balaam répondit à l'ânesse : Parce que tu t'es moquée de moi; plût à Dieu que j'eusse une épée en ma main, car je te tuerais sur-le-champ.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for now would: Proverbs 12:10, Proverbs 12:16, Ecclesiastes 9:3
Reciprocal: Genesis 3:1 - he said Genesis 30:34 - General Matthew 2:16 - when
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Balaam said unto the ass, because thou hast mocked me,.... Or rather "defiled me", as the word is rendered in Job 16:15 by running with him against a wall, and by lying down with him in the dust and dirt, and so the Arabic version renders it,
"because thou hast rolled me in the dirt;''
the sense of mocking is not easy to be understood, unless it be that it exposed him to be mocked and laughed at by others, by turning aside, and lying down, and being so unruly; but then there were only his servants with him, to whom only he could be exposed in such a manner, which one would think would not have given him so much concern, and put him into such a passion: the word sometimes is used for seeking occasion, and such a sense it may have here, as that it sought an opportunity or occasion to throw him, and so to kill him, or at least to do him harm, see Daniel 6:4
I would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee: so enraged was he, and his passion was so great, that he was not at all frightened and amazed to hear the ass speak, though Josephus q represents him as disturbed and astonished at it; but some think, he being used to converse with spirits in the shapes of various creatures, it was no surprise to him to hear it speak.
q Antiqu. l. 4. c. 6. sect. 3.
