8Then the king answered, "I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided:
8Then the king answered, "I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided:
5 The king replied to the astrologers, "This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.
6 But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. So tell me the dream and interpret it for me."
7 Once more they replied, "Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it."
8 Then the king answered, "I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided:
9 If you do not tell me the dream, there is just one penalty for you. You have conspired to tell me misleading and wicked things, hoping the situation will change. So then, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can interpret it for me."
10 The astrologers answered the king, "There is not a man on earth who can do what the king asks! No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.
2:8The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king answered, and said: I know for certain that you seek to gain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king answered and said, I know of a certainty that ye would gain time, because ye see the word is gone forth from me;
2:8The king answered and said, I know of a certain that ye would gain time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king answered and said, I know of certainty that ye would gain the time, because ye see the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.
2:8The king hath answered and said, 'Of a truth I know that time ye are gaining, because that ye have seen that the thing is gone from me,
2:8The king answered and said, I know of certainty that you would gain the time, because you see the thing is gone from me.