Teks -- Numbers 22:33 (NET)

22:33 The donkey saw me and turned from me these three times. If she had not turned from me, I would have killed you but saved her alive.”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Num 22:33 - I had slain thee

I had slain thee alone, and not her, therefore her turning aside and falling down was wholly for thy benefit, not for her own, and thy anger against her was unjust and unreasonable.

Clarke: Num 22:33 - Surely now also I had slain thee

Surely now also I had slain thee - How often are the meanest animals, and the most trivial occurrences, instruments of the preservation of our lives, and of the salvation of our souls! The messenger of justice would have killed Balaam, had not the mercy of God prevented the ass from proceeding.

TSK: Num 22:33 - surely

surely : Num 14:37, Num 16:33-35; 1Ki 13:24-28

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Num 22:33

I had slain thee alone, and left her; and therefore her turning aside and falling down was wholly for thy sake and benefit, not for her own, and thy anger against her was unjust and unreasonable.

Gill: Num 22:33 - And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times // unless she had turned from me // surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive

And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times,.... The ass saw the angel when Balaam did not, and that was the reason of its turning aside; and it was well for him it did, and therefore he should not have smote it:

unless she had turned from me; if she had pushed on, endeavouring to make her way:

surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive; had certainly and only slain him, and not the ass; and from hence the Jewish writers ^t gather, that the ass was now slain, lest it should be said, this is the ass that spoke, and so be made an idol of.