Numbers 24:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹¹ Now be off with you! Go home! I said, “I will reward you richly”, but the Lord has denied you any reward.’ ¹² And Balaam said to Balak, ‘Did I not tell your messengers whom you sent to me, ¹³ “If Balak should give me his house full of silver and gold, I would not be able to go beyond the word of the Lord, to do either good or bad of my own will; what the Lord says, that is what I will say”?