The speech of one who hears the words of God and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, fallen down, yet with eyes uncovered.
Torah Temimah: Berachos 7a — he knew the hour when the Holy One is angry.
English: “And knows the knowledge of the Most High.” Now he did not even know the mind of his animal — would he know the knowledge of the Most High? Rather, what is “knows the knowledge of the Most High”? That he knew how to aim for that hour in which the Holy One is angry.
Reinterpretation of claimed omniscience as knowledge of a single dangerous hour.
Bilam’s “knowledge of the Most High” is reduced to timing a moment of divine anger — not true prophetic intimacy.