Numbers 22:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to summon you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able to honor you?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ Balak said to Balaam, Did I not [earnestly] send to you to ask you [to come] to me? Why did you not come? Am not I able to promote you to honor?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honor?

Common English Bible

³⁷ Balak said to Balaam, “Didn’t I send urgently and summon you? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And he said to Balaam: "I sent messengers to call you. Why did you not come to me immediately? Was it because I am not able to pay the cost for your arrival?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And he said to Balaam: I sent messengers to call thee. Why didst thou not come immediately to me? Was it because I am not able to reward thy coming?

Numbers 22:37 Cross References

Psalm 75:6

For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,

Numbers 22:36

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at Ir-moab, on the boundary formed by the Arnon, at the farthest point of the boundary.

Numbers 22:38

Balaam said to Balak, “I have come to you now, but do I have power to say just anything? The word God puts in my mouth, that is what I must say.”

Numbers 24:11

Now be off with you! Go home! I said, ‘I will reward you richly,’ but the Lord has denied you any reward.”

Luke 4:6

And the devil said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please.

John 5:44

How can you believe when you accept glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the one who alone is God?