The prince of the eunuchs said, I fear my lord the king He objects that he should incur the king's displeasure, and bring his life into danger, if he complied with Daniel's request; the king having appointed what sort of meat and drink Daniel and his young friends should use, and having given no one authority to change it for any other, especially for a kind less calculated to preserve their health, and increase the strength and vigour of their constitutions, and beauty of their appearance. For why should he see your faces worse liking Hebrew, זעפים, σκυθρωπα, as the LXX. render it, more sad and dejected, or meager and lean; than the children which are of your sort Or, which are of your age, as the Hebrew word גיל signifies in the Arabic, and as the LXX. understand it. Probably, however, the word may include the condition also.
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Daniel 1:10
10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who hath appointed your meat and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse liking than the children which are of your sort? then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king.