Dan 2:27 | JFB | STEP | 27. cannot-- Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans ( ), could authoritatively declare the impossibility of mere man solving the king's difficulty. soothsayers-- from a root, "to cut off"; referring to their cutting the heavens into divisions, and so guessing at men's destinies from the place of the stars at one's birth.

‏ Daniel 2:27

27. cannot--Daniel, being learned in all the lore of the Chaldeans (Da 1:4), could authoritatively declare the impossibility of mere man solving the king's difficulty.

soothsayers--from a root, "to cut off"; referring to their cutting the heavens into divisions, and so guessing at men's destinies from the place of the stars at one's birth.