Daniel 10:16-17
10:16 Then 1 one who appeared to be a human being 2 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.”
1 tn Heb “Behold.”
2 tc So most Hebrew MSS; one Hebrew MS along with the Dead Sea Scrolls and LXX read “something that looked like a man’s hand.”
3 tn Heb “my lord,” here a title of polite address. Cf. v. 19.
4 tn Heb “How is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord?”
5 tn Heb “does not stand.”