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Numbers 22:19

I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

Challoner: To stayHis desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed already that it was not God's will he should go, came from the inclination he had to gratify Balac, for the sake of worldly gain. And this perverse disposition God punished by permitting him to go (though not to curse the people as he would willingly have done), and suffering him to fall still deeper and deeper into sin, till he came at last to give that abominable counsel against the people of God, which ended in his own destruction. So sad a thing it is to indulge a passion for money.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Obsecro ut hic maneatis etiam hac nocte, et scire queam quid mihi rursum respondeat Dominus.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ νῦν ὑπομείνατε αὐτοῦ καὶ ὑμεῖς τὴν νύκτα ταύτην, καὶ γνώσομαι τί προσθήσει Κύριος λαλῆσαι πρὸς μέ.
Hebrew (WLC): וְעַתָּ֗ה שְׁב֨וּ נָ֥א בָזֶ֛ה גַּם אַתֶּ֖ם הַלָּ֑יְלָה וְאֵ֣דְעָ֔ה מַה יֹּסֵ֥ף יְהוָ֖ה דַּבֵּ֥ר עִמִּֽי

Haydock's commentary

To stay. His desiring them to stay, after he had been fully informed already that it was not God's will he should go, came from the inclination he had to gratify Balac for the sake of worldly gain. And this perverse disposition God punished by permitting him to go, (though not to curse the people, as he would willingly have done) and suffering him to fall still deeper and deeper into sin, till he came at last to give that abominable counsel against the people of God, which ended in his own destruction. So sad a thing it is to indulge a passion for money. (Challoner) (St. Augustine, q. 48.)

Philo (de vita, Mos. i.) thinks that Balaam feigned this leave of God, ver. 22. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.