TSK · Numbers 23:7

Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

He sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor, which is by the River, to the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, "Behold, there is a people who came out from Egypt. Behold, they cover the surface of the earth, and they are staying opposite me.

'Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covers the surface of the earth: now, come curse me them; perhaps I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.'"

He took up his parable, and said, "Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;

He took up his parable, and said, "Alas, who shall live when God does this?

The Philistine said, "I defy the armies of Israel this day! Give me a man, that we may fight together!"

Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God."

When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

Job again took up his parable, and said,

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.

Then I said, Ah Lord Yahweh! they say of me, Isn't he a speaker of parables?

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world."