Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
So {how am I, a servant of my lord} to speak with {you, my lord}, and I {just now} {have no strength in me}?"
New American Standard Bible
For
King James Version
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Holman Bible
How can someone like me,
International Standard Version
So how can a servant of my lord talk with someone like you, sir? And as for me, there's no strength left in me, and I can hardly breathe.'
A Conservative Version
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? For as for me, straightaway there remained no strength in me, nor was there breath left in me.
American Standard Version
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.
Amplified
For how can such a [weakened] servant of my lord talk with such [a being] as my lord? For now there remains no strength in me, nor has any breath been left in me.”
Bible in Basic English
For how may this servant of my lord have talk with my lord? for, as for me, straight away my strength went from me and there was no breath in my body.
Darby Translation
And how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remaineth no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Julia Smith Translation
And how shall this servant of my lord be able to speak with this my lord and I, from this time no strength will stand in me, and breath was not left in me.
King James 2000
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
Modern King James verseion
For how can the servant of my lord talk with my lord? For as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, nor is there breath left in me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
How may my lord's servant then talk with my lord? Seeing there is no strength in me, so that I cannot take my breath?"
NET Bible
How, sir, am I able to speak with you? My strength is gone, and I am breathless."
New Heart English Bible
For how can this servant of my lord talk with my lord? As for me, no strength remains, and I am breathless."
The Emphasized Bible
How then can the servant of this my lord speak with this my lord, - seeing that, as for me - henceforth, there remaineth in me no strength, and no, spirit, is left in me?
Webster
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, neither is there breath left in me.
World English Bible
For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, immediately there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me.
Youngs Literal Translation
And how is the servant of this my lord able to speak with this my lord? as for me, henceforth there remaineth in me no power, yea, breath hath not been left in me.
Themes
Jesus Christ, Deity Of » As king of kings and lord of lords
Daniel » Characteristics of » Humility
Jesus Christ » Divinity of » King of kings and lord of lords
Interlinear
Dabar
`attah
`amad
Koach
N@shamah
References
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Daniel 10:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Angelic Conflict
16 Then look, there was {one in the form of a human}; he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the [one] standing {before me}, "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I [have] not retained [my] strength. 17 So {how am I, a servant of my lord} to speak with {you, my lord}, and I {just now} {have no strength in me}?" 18 And {he again touched} me, {the one in the form of a human}, and he strengthened me.
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 24:10-11
And they saw the God of Israel, and [what was] under his feet [was] like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness.
Isaiah 6:1-5
In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe [was] filling the temple.
Genesis 32:20
And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob [is] behind us.'" For he thought, "{Let me appease him} with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will {show me favor}."
Exodus 33:20
But he said, "You are not able to see my face, because human will not see me and live."
Judges 6:22
And Gideon realized that he [was] the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face."
Judges 13:21-23
The angel of Yahweh did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, and then Manoah knew that he [was] a messenger of Yahweh.
Matthew 22:43-44
He said to them, "How then does David, by the Spirit, call him 'Lord,' saying,
Mark 12:36
David himself said by the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet." '
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father--that one has made [him] known.