Numbers 22:30

Ever since I was thine. — Literally, ever since thou livedst, — i.e., all thy life long. The Targums of Jonathan and of Jerusalem paraphrase thus — “upon which thou hast ridden from thy youth unto this day.” “An Arabic writer,” says Dr. Gill, in his Commentary, in loc., “makes mention of an ass that the owner rode on forty years.”

Unto this day. — The use of these words in this place serves to throw light upon such passages as Deuteronomy 3:14, “called them after his own name... unto this day,” and shows that they do not necessarily denote that the events to which reference is made were separated by any very long interval.