³⁸ 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.

¹⁸ 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.

²⁶ But Balaam answered Balak, Didn't I tell you, saying, All that Yahweh speaks, that I must do?

¹⁶ Yahweh met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.

¹² Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not [yet] done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

²⁵ who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

²¹ There are many plans in a man's heart, But Yahweh's counsel will prevail.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

¹⁰ Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

¹³ Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.

¹⁴ Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what Yahweh says to me, that will I speak.

¹³ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of Yahweh, to do either good or bad of my own mind; what Yahweh speaks, that will I speak?