Numbers 23:11-13

English Standard Version

¹¹ And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? ^(A)I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.” ¹² And he answered and said, ^(B)“Must I not take care to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

Balaam's Second Oracle

¹³ And Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place, from which you may see them. You shall see only a fraction of them and shall not see them all. Then curse them for me from there.”