And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
Numbers 23:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) And he answered, “Must I not take heed to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Balaam answered, Must I not be obedient and speak what the Lord has put in my mouth? American Standard Version (1901) And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth? Common English Bible He answered and said, “Don’t I have to take care to speak whatever the LORD gives me to say?” Catholic Public Domain Version He answered him, "How can I say anything other than what the Lord orders?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth? |
And you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach you what you shall do.
when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
And God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, rise, go with them; but only what I bid you, that shall you do.”
Balaam said to Balak, “Lo, I have come to you! Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that must I speak.”
And Balak said to him, “Come with me to another place, from which you may see them; you shall see only the nearest of them, and shall not see them all; then curse them for me from there.”
Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”
And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.
‘If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord speaks, that will I speak’?
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.