Once more they replied, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”
If a ruler’s anger rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
Then the astrologers answered the king, “May the king live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”
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:
If you do not tell me the dream, there is only 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.”
When the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners came, I told them the dream, but they could not interpret it for me.