SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:12
Y Balaam le respondió: ¿No lo declaré yo también a tus mensajeros que me enviaste, diciendo:
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Balaam said unto Balak , etc.] In order to mitigate his wrath, and bring him into a better temper: spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me : those that came to him a second time; for to the first he said nothing of what is after related, but to the last he did much the same as he had afterwards said to Balak himself: saying, Ver. 13 . If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold , etc.] Which are the very words he said to the princes of Moab, ( Numbers 22:18), I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad ; for though here it is the “commandment”, and there the “word” of the Lord, yet it is the same word in both places in the original text: indeed, here he omits the relation to the Lord he there claims, saying “my God”; and instead of “little or great”, here it is “good or bad”, but the sense is the same: and he adds, for explanation sake, of mine own mind : or out of my heart, which was disposed well enough to serve Balak, but was laid under a restraint by the Lord: but what the Lord said, that will I speak ; and he had not only said this to the messengers, but to the king himself, and therefore he thought, that as he had openly and honestly told him this at first, he had no reason to be so angry with him; (see Numbers 22:38).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-14 - This vain attempt to curse Israel is ended. Balak broke out into a rag against Balaam, and expressed great vexation. Balaam has a very ful excuse; God restrained him from saying what he would have said, an constrained him to say what he would not have uttered.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 בלעם 1109 אל 413 בלק 1111 הלא 3808 גם 1571 אל 413 מלאכיך 4397 אשׁר 834 שׁלחת 7971 אלי 413 דברתי 1696 לאמר׃ 559
