Literatura ng Ikalawang Templo sa Mga Bilang 23:8: That the Worse is wont to Attack the Better

[71] It was so with Balaam also. He was a sophist, an empty conglomeration of incompatible and discordant notions. It was his desire to do harm to the goodly one by laying curses upon him. But he could not, for God turned his curses into a blessing (Numb. 23:8), in order that He might at once convict the unrighteous one of his villainy, and at the same time make good his own love of virtue.