Numbers 22:38

WEB

³⁸Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? I will speak the word that God puts in my mouth.”

KJV

³⁸And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

BSB

³⁸“See, I have come to you,” Balaam replied, “but can I say just anything? I must speak only the word that God puts in my mouth.”

FBV

³⁸“Look, I'm here with you now, aren't I?” Balaam replied. “But do you think I can just say anything? I can only speak the words that God gives me to say.”

Extra References

Numbers 22:18

¹⁸Balaam 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 the LORD my God, to do less or more.

Proverbs 19:21

²¹There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.

Numbers 23:26

²⁶But Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘All that the LORD speaks, that I must do’?”

Numbers 23:16

¹⁶The LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and say this.”

Psalms 76:10

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

1 Kings 22:14

¹⁴Micaiah said, “As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak.”

Numbers 24:13

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’?

Psalms 33:10

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

Isaiah 47:12

¹²“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.

Isaiah 44:25

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