Numbers 23:8-10

Expanded Bible

⁸ But ·God has not cursed them,
    so I cannot curse them [^Lhow can I curse what God has not cursed?].
·The Lord has not called down evil on them,
    so I cannot call down evil on them [^LHow can I call down evil on/denounce what the Lord has not called down evil/denouced?].
⁹ I see them from the top of the ·mountains [cliffs];
    I see them from the hills.
I see a people who live alone,
    who think they are different from other nations [Ex. 19:5–6].
¹⁰ No one can number the ·many people [^Ldust; Gen. 13:16; 28:14] of Jacob,
    and no one can count a ·fourth [or dust cloud] of Israel.
Let me die like ·good [virtuous; upright] people,
    and let me end up like them!”