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Selected Verse: Numbers 22:32 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Nu 22:32	Strong Concordance	And the angel [04397] of the LORD [03068] said [0559] unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten [05221] thine ass [0860] these three [07969] times [07272]? behold, I went out [03318] to withstand [07854] thee, because thy way [01870] is perverse [03399] before me:
	King James	And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Is perverse - Rather, is headlong. Compare Peter's words Pe2 2:16, "the madness of the prophet."

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Is perverse - Rather, is headlong. Compare Peter's words Pe2 2:16, "the madness of the prophet."

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
To humble him deeply and inwardly, the Lord help up before him the injustice of his cruel treatment of the ass, and told him at the same time that it had saved his life by turning out of the way. "I have come out," said the angel of the Lord, "as an adversary; for the way leads headlong into destruction before me;" i.e., the way which thou art going is leading thee, in my eyes, in my view, into destruction. ירט, to plunge, sc., into destruction, both here, and also in Job 16:11, the only other passage in which it occurs.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

To humble him deeply and inwardly, the Lord help up before him the injustice of his cruel treatment of the ass, and told him at the same time that it had saved his life by turning out of the way. "I have come out," said the angel of the Lord, "as an adversary; for the way leads headlong into destruction before me;" i.e., the way which thou art going is leading thee, in my eyes, in my view, into destruction. ירט, to plunge, sc., into destruction, both here, and also in Job 16:11, the only other passage in which it occurs.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Thy way is perverse - Springing from covetousness.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Thy way is perverse - Springing from covetousness.

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