But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
Numbers 23:27 - English Standard Version 2016 And Balak said to Balaam, “Come now, I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Balak said to Balaam, Come, I implore you; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there. American Standard Version (1901) And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence. Common English Bible Balak said to Balaam, “Please come and I’ll take you to another place. Perhaps God will prefer it, so that you could curse him for me from there.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Balak said to him: "Come and I will lead you to another place. If perhaps it may please God, then you may curse them from there." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Balac said to him: Come and I will bring thee to another place. If peradventure it please God that thou mayest curse them from thence. |
But he is unchangeable, and who can turn him back? What he desires, that he does.
Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?
“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.
Come now, curse this people for me, since they are too mighty for me. Perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land, for I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”
And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”
But Balaam answered Balak, “Did I not tell you, ‘All that the Lord says, that I must do’?”