Num 23:7, 18, 24:3, 15, Job 27:1, Isa 14:4, Eze 16:44, Hab 2:6 | ESV | STEP | And Balaam took up his discourse and said , From Aram Balak has brought me, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains : Come , curse Jacob for me, and come , denounce Israel !

Numbers 23:7

7 And Balaam ^atook up his discourse and said,

“From ^bAram Balak has brought me,
the king of Moab ^cfrom the eastern mountains:
‘Come, ^dcurse Jacob for me,
and come, denounce Israel!’

Numbers 23:18

18 And Balaam took up his discourse and said,

“Rise, Balak, and hear;
give ear to me, O son of Zippor:

Numbers 24:3

3 and he ^etook up his discourse and said,

“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,
the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, ^{▼▼Or closed, or perfect; also verse 15}

Numbers 24:15

Balaam’s Final Oracle

15 ^gAnd he took up his discourse and said,

“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,
the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

Job 27:1

Job Continues: I Will Maintain My Integrity

1 And Job again ^htook up his discourse, and said:

Isaiah 14:4

4 you will take up this ⁱtaunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
^jthe insolent fury ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain} ceased!

Ezekiel 16:44

44 “Behold, everyone ^lwho uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

Habakkuk 2:6

Woe to the Chaldeans

6 Shall not all these ^mtake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

ⁿ“Woe to him ^owho heaps up what is not his own—
for ^phow long?—
and ^qloads himself with pledges!”