Numbers 23:8-10

International Standard Version

⁸ But how can I curse those whom God hasn’t cursed?
    How can I denounce
        those whom the Lord hasn’t denounced?

⁹ I saw them from the top of the rocks.
    I watched them from the hills.
Truly this is a people that lives by itself
    and doesn’t matter^[a] among the nations.

¹⁰ Who can count the dust of Jacob?
    Who can number the dust of Israel?
Let me die the death of the righteous,
    and may I end up like him.”