And when Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
When Balaam saw - i:e., was convinced, from the oracular announcements formerly made to the patriarchs, of which he had heard, combined with his own present experience.
To seek for, х liqra't (H7125) nªchaashiym (H5173)] - for the meeting of auguries, omens (Numbers 23:3-15); i:e., to use enchantments. His experience on the two former occasions had taught him that these superstitions accompaniments of his worship were useless, and therefore he now simply looked toward the camp of Israel, either with a secret design to curse them, or to await the divine afflatus.
Set his face toward the wilderness, х hamidbaar (H4057)] - namely, the plains of Moab.