11. Therefore, flee to your place, now! I thought to promote you to great honour; but, behold, the Lord has kept you back from honour.”
12. Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers whom you sent to me, saying,
13. ‘If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the Lord’s word, to do either good or bad from my own mind. I will say what the Lord says’?
14. Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”
15. He took up his parable, and said,“Balaam the son of Beor says,the man whose eyes are open says;
16. he says, who hears the words of God,knows the knowledge of the Most High,and who sees the vision of the Almighty,Falling down, and having his eyes open: