Numbers 23:19 (BSB)

God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

From Numbers 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 23:19

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 23:13-30: Here is, I. Preparation made the second time, as before, for the cursing of Israel. 1. The place is changed, Num 23:13. Balak fancied that Balaam, having so full a prospect of the whole camp of Israel, from the top of the rocks (Num 23:9), was either so enamoured with the beauty of it that he would not curse them or so affrighted with the...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 23:19: God is not a man, that he should lie,.... Man is a creature consisting of a body of flesh and blood, and of a soul, a created and finite spirit; but God, though he has the parts of an human body ascribed to him in a figurative sense, yet is not to be conceived of in a corporeal manner; and though he is a Spirit...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 23:19: God [is] not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (h) God's enemies are compelled to confess that his government is just, constant, and without change or repentance.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 23:19: Num 23:19 “God is not a man, that He should lie; nor a son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and should He not do it? and spoken, and should not carry it out?”