6. So he went back to him and found him standing beside his offering, with all the Moabite officials.
7. Then Balaam spoke his message: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the eastern mountains. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’
8. How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce those whom the Lord has not denounced?
9. From the rocky peaks I see them, from the heights I view them. I see a people who live apart and do not consider themselves one of the nations.
10. Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and may my final end be like theirs!”