Daniel 10:16-17

Context
10:16 Then¹ one who appeared to be a human being² was touching my lips. I opened my mouth and started to speak, saying to the one who was standing before me, “Sir,³ due to the vision, anxiety has gripped me and I have no strength. 10:17 How, sir, am I able to speak with you?⁴ My strength is gone,⁵ and I am breathless.”

[10:16] ¹tn Heb “Behold.”

[10:16] ²tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”

[10:16] ³tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.

[10:17] ⁴tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”

[10:17] ⁵tn Heb “does not stand.”