Numbers 23:6-8

Easy-to-Read Version

⁶So Balaam went back to Balak. Balak was still standing near the altar, and all the leaders of Moab were standing there with them. ⁷Then Balaam spoke, and this was his message:

“Balak, the king of Moab,
    brought me here from the eastern mountains of Aram.
Balak said to me,
    ‘Come, curse Jacob for me.
    Come, speak against the Israelites.’
⁸But God is not against them,
    so I cannot speak against them either!
The Lord has not asked for bad things to happen to these people.
    So I cannot do that either.