11. Now flee to your home. I promised to reward you richly, but the Lord has withheld the reward from you!”
12. Balaam replied to Balak, “Did I not even tell the messengers whom you sent to me,
13. ‘Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, I could not of my own accord do anything, good or evil, contrary to the command of the Lord’? Whatever the Lord says I must say.
14. “But now that I am about to go to my own people, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”