Numbers 22:29 (BSB)

Balaam answered the donkey, “You have made a fool of me! If I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!”

From Numbers 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 22:29

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 22:22-35: We have here an account of the opposition God gave to Balaam in his journey towards Moab; probably the princes had gone before, or gone some other way, and Balaam had pointed out where he would meet them, or where they should stay for him, for we read nothing of them in this part of our narrative, only that Balaam, like a person of some...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 22:29: And the angel of the Lord said unto him,.... When risen up, and standing before him: wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? the brute creatures are not to be beaten without cause, nor to be misused and abused by men, even their owners: behold, I went out to withstand thee; the ass was not to be blamed, nor to be beaten for...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 22:21-41: THE JOURNEY. (Num. 22:21-41) Balaam . . . saddled his ass--probably one of the white sprightly animals which persons of rank were accustomed to ride. The saddle, as usually in the East, would be nothing more than a pad or his outer cloak.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 22:28-31: Num 22:28-31 “Then Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me now three times?” But Balaam, enraged at the refractoriness of his ass, replied, “Because thou hast played me ill (התעלּל, see Exo 10:2): if there were only a sword in my hand, verily I should now have killed thee.”...