And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to you to call you? Why did you not come to me? Am I not able indeed to lift you up to honor?
For lifting up comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
And when Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him, to a city of Moab, in the border of Arnon, which is in the outermost border.
And Balaam said to Balak, Lo, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to say anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.
Therefore now flee to your place. I thought to lift you up to great honor, but lo, Jehovah has kept you back from honor.
And the Devil said to Him, All this power I will give you, and the glory of them; for it has been delivered to me. And I give it to whomever I will.
How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?