16. but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.
17. These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.
18. For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
19. They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.