New Revised Standard Version
but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

Contemporary English Version
But a donkey corrected him for this evil deed. It spoke to him with a human voice and made him stop his foolishness.

New American Bible
but he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

But had a check of his madness, the dumb beast used to the yoke, which, speaking with man's voice, forbade the folly of the prophet.

the dumb.

Numbers 22:22-33 And God was angry. And an angel of the Lord stood in the way against Balaam, who sat on the ass, and had two servants with him. . . .

the madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 I have surveyed all things with my mind, to know, and consider, and seek out wisdom and reason: and to know the wickedness of the fool, and the error of the imprudent:

Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.

Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of repaying are come: know ye, O Israel, that the prophet was foolish, the spiritual man was mad, for the multitude of thy iniquity, and the multitude of thy madness.

Luke 16:11 If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

Acts 26:11,24,25 And oftentimes punishing them, in every synagogue, I compelled them to blaspheme: and being yet more mad against them, I persecuted them even unto foreign cities. . . .