¹⁵ Forsaking the straight road they have gone astray; they have followed the way of Balaam [the son] of Beor, who loved the reward of wickedness.^(A)

¹⁶ But he was rebuked for his own transgression when a dumb beast of burden spoke with human voice and checked the prophet’s madness.^(B)

¹⁷ These are springs without water and mists driven along before a tempest, for whom is reserved forever the gloom of darkness.