⁹ for if you do not make the dream known to me, your verdict is fixed,^[a] and you have conspired to say a lying and deceitful word to me until the circumstances^[b] will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation.” ¹⁰ The astrologers^[c] answered the king and said, “There is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; in fact,^[d] no great and powerful king has ever asked a thing like this of any magician^[e] or conjurer^[f] or astrologer.^{[g] 11} And the thing that the king is asking is too difficult and there is no one who^[h] can reveal it to the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with mortals.”^[i]