Discovery BoxDaniel 4:25 
Context4:25 You will be driven 1 from human society, 2 and you will live 3 with the wild animals. You will be fed 4 grass like oxen, 5 and you will become damp with the dew of the sky. Seven periods of time will pass by for you, before 6 you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.
1 tn The Aramaic indefinite active plural is used here like the English passive. So also in v. 28, 29,32.
2 tn Aram “from mankind.” So also in v. 32.
3 tn Aram “your dwelling will be.” So also in v. 32.
4 tn Or perhaps “be made to eat.”
5 sn Nebuchadnezzar’s insanity has features that are associated with the mental disorder known as boanthropy, in which the person so afflicted imagines himself to be an ox or a similar animal and behaves accordingly.
6 tn Aram “until.”
