Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth. And I will be in your mouth and in his mouth, and I will reveal to you what you must do.
Numbers 23:12 - Catholic Public Domain Version He answered him, "How can I say anything other than what the Lord orders?" Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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?” Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He answered him: Call I speak any thing else but what the Lord commandeth? English Standard Version 2016 And he answered and said, “Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?” |
Speak to him, and put my words in his mouth. And I will be in your mouth and in his mouth, and I will reveal to you what you must do.
When he will have lowered his voice, do not believe him, for there are seven vices in his heart.
Therefore, God came to Balaam in the night, and said to him: "If these men have arrived to call you, then rise up and go with them; yet only in so far as you shall do what I will command you."
He answered him: "Behold, here I am. Am I able to speak anything other than what God will put into my mouth?"
Therefore, Balak said: "Come with me to another place, from where you may see a portion of Israel, though you cannot see them all. Curse them from there."
I was led here to bless, and I have no strength to hinder the blessing.
And he said, "Have I not told you that whatever God would command of me, I would do?"
And Balaam said to Balak: "Stand for a little while next to your holocaust, until I go, to see if perhaps the Lord will meet with me. And whatever he will command, I shall speak to you."
Even if Balak would give me his house, filled with silver and gold, I still could not go away from the word of the Lord my God, so as to offer anything, either good or evil, from my own heart; but whatever the Lord will speak, this, too, I shall speak.
For ones such as these do not serve Christ our Lord, but their inner selves, and, through pleasing words and skillful speaking, they seduce the hearts of the innocent.
They claim that they know God. But, by their own works, they deny him, since they are abominable, and unbelieving, and reprobate, toward every good work.