‘Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of Yahweh, to do good or bad of my own will — only what Yahweh says, that I will speak’?
In context
11Now flee to your own place! I said I would honor you richly, but look, Yahweh has kept you from honor.” 12Balaam said to Balak, “Did I not tell your messengers, whom you sent to me, 13‘Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of Yahweh, to do good or bad of my own will — only what Yahweh says, that I will speak’? 14Now look, I am going back to my own people. Come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.” 15Then he took up his poem and said: “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,
