He answered, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I replied.
“I cannot do it,” Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because I have greater wisdom than anyone else alive, but so that Your Majesty may know the interpretation and that you may understand what went through your mind.
I asked, “What are these, my lord?” The angel who was talking with me answered, “I will show you what they are.”
Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep.
He replied, “Do you not know what these are?” “No, my lord,” I said.
I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable?