What a babble is man to himself, and to his own heart! under all the seeming resolution, not to go beyond the word of the LORD, yet the HOLY GHOST who knew his heart, tells us, that he ran greedily into an error for reward. Jude 1:11. Certain it is, that all along he wished to hire himself out to curse the people of GOD, and consequently never could have been one of the LORD'S people. Else wherefore wait to hear what the LORD would say to him upon another trial, when the LORD had decided so plainly before.
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Numbers 22:18-19
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.