Daniel 2:9-11
New English Translation
9 If you don’t inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you.[a] For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful[b] until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence[c] that you can disclose its interpretation.”
10 The wise men replied to the king, “There is no man on earth who is able to disclose the king’s secret,[d] for no king, regardless of his position and power, has ever requested such a thing from any magician, astrologer, or wise man. 11 What the king is asking is too difficult, and no one exists who can disclose it to the king, except for the gods—but they don’t live among mortals!”[e]
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- Daniel 2:9 tn Aram “one is your law,” i.e., only one thing is applicable to you.
- Daniel 2:9 tn Aram “a lying and corrupt word.”
- Daniel 2:9 tn Aram “I will know.”
- Daniel 2:10 tn Aram “matter, thing.”
- Daniel 2:11 tn Aram “whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
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