Daniel 2:9-11

New Century Version

⁹ If you don’t tell me my dream, you will be punished. You have all agreed to tell me lies and wicked things, hoping things will change. Now, tell me the dream so that I will know you can tell me what it really means!”

¹⁰ The wise men answered the king, saying, “No one on earth can do what the king asks! No great and powerful king has ever asked the fortune-tellers, magicians, or wise men to do this; ¹¹ the king is asking something that is too hard. Only the gods could tell the king this, but the gods do not live among people.”