²⁸ Then the Lord opened the donkey’s mouth,^(A) and it said to Balaam, “What have I done to you to make you beat me these three times?^(B)”

¹⁶ But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.^(A)

³⁷ For no word from God will ever fail.”^(A)

¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute?^(A) Who gives them sight or makes them blind?^(B) Is it not I, the Lord?

¹⁹ For it is written:

²² We know that the whole creation has been groaning^(A) as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.