Numbers 23

Numbers 23:9:
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?." 

​What if he's LYING?: I, to be honest, have actually asked that question myself and apparently the question was possibly on the mind of man since early in creation because in Numbers 23: 19 it states ".God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?." The verse makes a comparison to man. We already know man can lie and he is often so very good at it. Oft times a persons judgement about someone reflect far more on himself than they do the target of his judgment. Not that someone who says someone is a liar is himself a liar, but he knows he has the capacity to lie very easily. The thing we might note about people who lie is that they are somewhat unstable. We may not see it at first, but often they will start forgetting a previous lie and we start to see the contradictions. A chronic liar lives in a world of mostly imagination, He lives in a day to day existential life of contradiction, but is unaware of the contradiction. His life is what he claims it is rather than what it really is. But the main point about a liar would be to consider the motivation. People generally lie to keep something from being exposed or to feign knowledge. It is a form of self protection which is also self delusion. The breakdown of issues with someone who lies could have volumes of books written about them. And it is those reasons for which someone generally lies. I would not see any of that in the concept of God, since he has no reason to protect himself, and with the personalty that you attributed to Him, The only other thing would be if he is pure evil, intentionally lies and establishes everything in creation as one great big absurdity in which man will arrive at heaven and he will say "Just kidding," then destroy everything and everyone. I can only think of one example of that offhand, and was during WWII when Jews were led to gas chambers, that they were often told they were just going into showers. Very cruel. However, if God is a liar, then he is also a good actor....which of course we could attribute to him, because he is god and he can do what he wants and probably do it well. He could very well be the best liar of all and be the "ultimate liar."....although, you have already given Him a character attribute of "ultimate truth." That does not clear Him yet, of course, because of the imagery that has been placed on him is also a delusion, than we create an absurd God. But, the endless number of ironies and paradoxes that can come out of that image is staggering. Life then, is as the playwrights of the theatre of the absurd suggested would become reality. And though life has its absurd moments, it is still held together by order. Gravity holds things in place, the weather changes, night and day come and go, and there really isn't all that much absurdity in the natural environment aside from a few anomalies here and there. So, can I look at the characterization of the God you created as your premise and then claim he is also a liar? Only by a giant leap of faith and ignoring the ramifications of what the characteristics are that were attributed to Him ​