Numbers 23:8-10

New Living Translation

⁸ But how can I curse those
    whom God has not cursed?
How can I condemn those
    whom the Lord has not condemned?
⁹ I see them from the cliff tops;
    I watch them from the hills.
I see a people who live by themselves,
    set apart from other nations.
¹⁰ Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust?
    Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people?
Let me die like the righteous;
    let my life end like theirs.”