Daniel 4:21

4:21 whose foliage was attractive and its fruit plentiful, and from which there was food available for all, under whose branches wild animals ¹  used to live, and in whose branches birds of the sky used to nest –

Daniel 8:4

8:4 I saw that the ram was butting westward, northward, and southward. No animal ²  was able to stand before it, and there was none who could deliver from its power. ³  It did as it pleased and acted arrogantly. ⁴ 

[4:21]  ¹ tn Aram “the beasts of the field” (also in vv. 23, 25, 32).

[8:4]  ² tn Or “beast” (NAB).

[8:4]  ³ tn Heb “hand.” So also in v. 7.

[8:4]  ⁴ tn In the Hiphil the Hebrew verb גָּדַל (gadal, “to make great; to magnify”) can have either a positive or a negative sense. For the former, used especially of God, see Ps 126:2, 3; Joel 2:21. In this chapter (8:4, 8, 11, 25) the word has a pejorative sense, describing the self-glorification of this king. The sense seems to be that of vainly assuming one’s own superiority through deliberate hubris.