27 Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the secret about which the king has inquired, neither (A)wise men, sorcerers, soothsayer priests, nor diviners are able to declare it to the king. 28 However, there is a (B)God in heaven who reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the [a](C)latter days. This was your dream and the (D)visions [b]in your mind while on your bed.

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Footnotes

  1. Daniel 2:28 Lit end of the days
  2. Daniel 2:28 Lit of your head

27 Daniel replied, “No wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about,(A) 28 but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries.(B) He has shown King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in days to come.(C) Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind(D) as you were lying in bed(E) are these:(F)

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27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;

28 But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

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19 For it is written:

(A)I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the understanding of those who have understanding, I will confound.”

20 (B)Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of (C)this age? Has God not (D)made foolish the wisdom of (E)the world?

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19 For it is written:

“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
    the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”[a](A)

20 Where is the wise person?(B) Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age?(C) Has not God made foolish(D) the wisdom of the world?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 1:19 Isaiah 29:14

19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

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