Daniel 2:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ But if you do tell me the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive from me gifts and rewards and great honour. Therefore tell me the dream and its interpretation.’ ⁷ They answered a second time, ‘Let the king first tell his servants the dream, then we can give its interpretation.’ ⁸ The king answered, ‘I know with certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see I have firmly decreed: