Numbers 23:7-10

7This was the message Balaam delivered: “Balak summoned me to come from Aram; the king of Moab brought me from the eastern hills. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘curse Jacob for me! Come and announce Israel’s doom.’

8But how can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom the Lord has not condemned?

9I see them from the cliff tops; I watch them from the hills. I see a people who live by themselves, set apart from other nations.

10Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust? Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people? Let me die like the righteous; let my life end like theirs.”