But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, [there is but] one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
Ver. 9. There is but one decree for you.] But that was a very tyrannical and bloody one. It is dangerous to affront great men, a though in a just cause. Ecc 10:4
“ Saevum praelustri fulmen ab arce venit. ” - Ovid.
Till the time be changed.] The Latin hath it, Till there be another state of things. See on Daniel 2:8 .
Tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can show me the interpretation thereof.] If you cannot tell it, surely you cannot interpret it; since they are both of a divine instinct, and nothing is hidden from God.
a Procul a culmine, et procul a fulmine.