Discovery BoxDaniel 10:16-19 
Context10:16 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.” 10:18 Then the one who appeared to be a human being touched me again 6 and strengthened me. 10:19 He said to me, “Don’t be afraid, you who are valued. 7 Peace be to you! Be strong! Be really strong!” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened. I said, “Sir, you may speak now, 8 for you have given me strength.”
1 tn Heb “Behold.”
2 tc So most Hebrew
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.”
6 tn Heb “He added and touched me.” The construction is a verbal hendiadys.
7 tn Heb “treasured man.”
8 tn Heb “my lord may speak.”
