Numeri 22:33

La Bibbia di Giovanni Diodati

Ma l’asina mi ha veduto; e, veggendomi, si è rivolta già tre volte; forse si è ella rivolta per tema di me; perciocchè già avrei ucciso te, e lei avrei lasciata vivere.

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
e l’asina m’ha visto ed è uscita di strada davanti a me queste tre volte; se non fosse uscita di strada davanti a me, certo io avrei già ucciso te e lasciato in vita lei".

La Nuova Diodati
lasina mi ha visto e mi ha schivato ben tre volte; se non mi avesse schivato, io ti avrei certamente ucciso lasciando in vita lei".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

surely: Numbers 14:37, Numbers 16:33-35, 1 Kings 13:24-28

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times,.... The ass saw the angel when Balaam did not, and that was the reason of its turning aside; and it was well for him it did, and therefore he should not have smote it:

unless she had turned from me; if she had pushed on, endeavouring to make her way:

surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive; had certainly and only slain him, and not the ass; and from hence the Jewish writers t gather, that the ass was now slain, lest it should be said, this is the ass that spoke, and so be made an idol of.

t Bemidbar Rabba, sect. 20. fol. 227. 4. Aben Ezra in loc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 22:33. Surely now also I had slain thee — How often are the meanest animals, and the most trivial occurrences, instruments of the preservation of our lives, and of the salvation of our souls! The messenger of justice would have killed Balaam, had not the mercy of God prevented the ass from proceeding.