The angel who spoke with me responded by asking me, ‘You do not know what these are?’ I replied, ‘No, my lord.’
He said to me, “You do not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
He said to them, “Don’t you grasp this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?
Then I asked, ‘What are these, my lord?’ Now the angel speaking with me said to me, ‘I will show you what these are.’
But as for me, this mystery is not revealed to me because I posses more wisdom than any other living person, but in order that the king may know the interpretation and understand the thoughts of your heart.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, “It’s not within me. God will answer with shalom for Pharaoh.”
Then the angel who had been speaking with me returned and woke me—like a man who is wakened from his sleep.
Then I responded by saying to the angel speaking with me, ‘What are these, my lord?’