Numbers 22:38 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ And Balaam said to Balak, Indeed I have come to you, but do I now have any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³⁸ Balaam said to Balak, “I’ve now come to you. But I’m only able to speak whatever word God gives me to say. That is what I will speak.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ He answered him: "Behold, here I am. Am I able to speak anything other than what God will put into my mouth?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ He answered him: Lo, here I am: shall I have power to speak any other thing but that which God shall put in my mouth?

Numbers 22:38 Cross References

1 Kings 22:14

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

1 Kings 22:16

But the king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”

2 Chronicles 18:13

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”

Psalm 33:10

The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to naught; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.

Psalm 76:10

Surely the wrath of men shall praise thee; the residue of wrath thou wilt gird upon thee.

Proverbs 19:21

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will be established.

Isaiah 44:25

who frustrates the omens of liars, and makes fools of diviners; who turns wise men back, and makes their knowledge foolish;

Isaiah 46:10

declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’

Isaiah 47:12

Stand fast in your enchantments and your many sorceries, with which you have labored from your youth; perhaps you may be able to succeed, perhaps you may inspire terror.

Numbers 22:18

But Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go beyond the command of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

Numbers 22:37

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?”

Numbers 22:39

Then Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

Numbers 22:8

And he said to them, “Lodge here this night, and I will bring back word to you, as the Lord speaks to me”; so the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

Numbers 23:16

And the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Return to Balak, and thus shall you speak.”

Numbers 23:26

But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”

Numbers 24:13

‘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’?