Render, For Kain shall surely not be destroyed (literally “be for destruction”) until Asshur, etc. The words are not, as they appear in the King James Version, a prediction of evil to the Kenites, but a promise, on the contrary, of safety to be long continued to them (compare Numbers 10:32; Jeremiah 35:19).
Related Commentaries of Numbers 24:22
Numbers 24:22
22 Nevertheless the Kenited shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.