Internet Verse Search Commentaries Word Analysis ITL - draft

Numbers 23:8

Context
NETBible

How 1  can I curse 2  one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

XREF

Nu 23:20,23; Isa 44:25; Isa 47:12,13

NET © Notes

tn The figure is erotesis, a rhetorical question. He is actually saying he cannot curse them because God has not cursed them.

tn The imperfect tense should here be classified as a potential imperfect.



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