Numbers 24:12
Hebrew Text— Numbers 24:12Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
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‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond Yahweh’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what Yahweh says’?
The man of God said to the king, “Even if you gave me half of your house, I would not go in with you, neither would I eat bread nor drink water in this place;
Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that I will speak.”
Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.
But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?’ ”
You shall speak to him, and put the words in his mouth. I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”
Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”
Behold, I have received a command to bless. He has blessed, and I can’t reverse it.
for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”
His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.
Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.
who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;
I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.
“Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.
But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.
Then Daniel answered before the king, “Let your gifts be to yourself, and give your rewards to another. Nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king, and make known to him the interpretation.
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.