⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

² I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

³⁵ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

⁶ To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

⁷ And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, and come, defy Israel.