17. Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him. And Balac said to him: What hath the Lord spoken?
18. But he taking up his parable, said: Stand, O Balac, and give ear: hear, thou son of Sephor:
19. God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
20. I was brought to bless, the blessing I am not able to hinder.
21. There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.
22. God hath brought him out of Egypt, whose strength is like to the rhinoceros.