Daniel 2:4-11

4Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in 12Aramaic: “3O king, live forever! 4Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.” 5The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command 5from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be 67torn limb from limb and your houses will be turned into a rubbish heap. 6But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me 8gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.” 7They answered a second time and said, “Let the king 9tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.” 8The king replied, “I know for certain that you are trying to buy time, because you have perceived that the command 10from me is firm, 9that if you do not make the dream known to me, there is only 11one 12decree for you. For you have agreed together to speak lying and corrupt 13words before me until the 14situation is changed; therefore tell me the dream, so that I may 15know that you can declare to me its interpretation.” 10The Chaldeans answered 16the king and said, “There is no person on earth who could declare the matter 17to the king, because no great king or ruler has ever asked anything like this of any 18soothsayer priest, sorcerer, or Chaldean. 11Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it 19to the king except 20gods, whose 21dwelling place is not with mortal flesh.”