12 Then I said to them:* “If it is good in YOUR eyes,+ give [me] my wages; but if not, refrain.” And they proceeded to pay* my wages, thirty pieces of silver.+
15 Abandoning the straight path, they have been misled. They have followed the path of Baʹlaam,+ [the son] of Beʹor, who loved the reward of wrongdoing,+