Numbers 24:11-13

21st Century King James Version

¹¹ Therefore now flee thou to thy place. I thought to promote thee unto great honor, but lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honor.”

¹² And Balaam said unto Balak, “Spoke I not also to thy messengers whom thou sentest unto me, saying,

¹³ ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak’?