TSK · Numbers 23:7

Arise, get thee to Padan Aram to the house of Bethuel thy mothers father, and thence take thee a wife of the daughters of Laban thy mothers brother.

Hee sent messengers therefore vnto Balaam the sonne of Beor to Pethor (which is by the riuer of the lande of the children of his folke) to call him, saying, Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt, which couer the face of the earth, and lye ouer against me.

Beholde, there is a people come out of Egypt and couereth the face of the earth: come nowe, curse them for my sake: so it may be that I shalbe able to ouercome them in battell, and to driue them out.

And he vttered his parable, and sayde, Rise vp, Balak, and heare: hearken vnto me, thou sonne of Zippor.

And he vttered his parable, and sayd, Balaam the sonne of Beor hath sayde, and the man whose eyes were shut vp, hath sayd,

Againe he vttered his parable, and sayd, Alas, who shall liue when God doeth this?

Also the Philistim saide, I defie the hoste of Israel this day: giue mee a man, that we may fight together.

So thy seruaunt slue both the lyon, and the beare: therefore this vncircumcised Philistim shall be as one of them, seeing hee hath railed on the hoste of the liuing God.

And when hee reuiled Israel, Ionathan the sonne of Shima the brother of Dauid slewe him.

Moreouer Iob proceeded and continued his parable, saying,

Wherefore should I feare in the euil dayes, when iniquitie shal compasse me about, as at mine heeles?

As the sparowe by flying, and the swallow by flying escape, so the curse that is causeles, shall not come.

Then saide I, Ah Lord God, they say of me, Doeth not he speake parables?

Shall not all these take vp a parable against him, and a tanting prouerbe against him, and say, Ho, he that increaseth that which is not his? howe long? and hee that ladeth himselfe with thicke clay?

That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will vtter the thinges which haue beene kept secrete from the foundation of the worlde.