Numbers 22:37 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³⁷ And Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send to you to call 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 the city of Moab, on the boundary formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the boundary.

Numbers 22:38

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.”

Numbers 24:11

Therefore now flee to your place; I said, ‘I will certainly honor you,’ but the Lord has held you back from honor.”

Luke 4:6

and said to him, “To you I will give all this authority and their glory; for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will.

John 5:44

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?