The King James Version Bible

Numbers 24:11-13

  1. Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the LORD hath kept thee back from honour.

  2. And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

  3. If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?