11. So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”
12. Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not also tell your messengers whom you sent to me,
13. ‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?
14. And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.”
15. Then he uttered this oracle:“The oracle of Balaam son of Beor;the oracle of the man whose eyes are open;