Numbers 23:8-10

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⁸ But God is not against them,
    so I cannot speak against them either!
The Lord has not asked for bad things to happen to these people.
    So I cannot do that either.
⁹ I see these people from the mountain.
    I see them from the high hills.
They live alone.
    They are not part of another nation.
¹⁰ Who can count Jacob’s people?
    They are as many as the grains of dust.
    No one can count even a fourth of the Israelites.
Let me die like a good man.
    Let my life end as happy as theirs!”