Daniel 2:5-13 And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated.

DouayRheims⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁵ And the king, answering, said to the Chaldeans: The thing is gone out of my mind: unless you tell me the dream, and the meaning thereof, you shall be put to death, and your houses shall be confiscated. ⁶ but if you tell the dream, and the meaning of it, you shall receive of me rewards, and gifts, and great honour: therefore, tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof. ⁷ They answered again and said: Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will declare the interpretation of it. ⁸ The king answered and said: I know for certain, that you seek to gain time, since you know that the thing is gone from me. ⁹ If, therefore, you tell me not the dream, there is one sentence concerning you, that you have also framed a lying interpretation, and full of deceit, to speak before me till the time pass away. Tell me, therefore, the dream, that I may know that you also give a true interpretation thereof. ¹⁰ Then the Chaldeans answered before the king, and said: There is no man upon earth, that can accomplish thy word, O king; neither doth any king, though great and mighty, ask such a thing of any diviner, or wise man, or Chaldean. ¹¹ For the thing that thou asketh, O king, is difficult: nor can any one be found that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose conversation is not with men. ¹² Upon hearing this, the king in fury, and in great wrath, commanded that all the wise men of Babylon should be put to death. ¹³ And the decree being gone forth, the wise men were slain: and Daniel and his companions were sought for, to be put to death.