TSK · Numbers 23:4

God came to Balaam, and said, "Who are these men with you?"

Balaam said to Balak, "Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bulls and seven rams."

'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.'

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.