¹⁰ The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter; therefore there is no king, however great and powerful, that hath asked such a thing of any scribe, or magician, or Chaldean.

¹³ And the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for so was the king's business [conducted] before all that knew law and judgment;