Daniel 2:8

of certainty We should say now, -of acertainty." Murray quotes from North's Plutarch(1580), -It is of certaintythat her proper name was Nicostrata."

would gain time (R.V.)] lit. are buying the time. Their repeated request to the king to tell them his dream is proof to him that they have no power to reveal secrets, and that they could not therefore interpret his dream, even though he were to describe it to them: hence he charges them with buying the time, i.e. with endeavouring to defer the fatal moment when the truth must appear, and when their inability to interpret his dream must be exposed.

because ye see that the word spoken by me is sure, (9) That, if, &c. Because you see that I am resolved to punish you, if you do not fulfil the conditions I lay down (Daniel 2:5).