DANIEL 2:10
 

The Chaldeans answered the king, and said, “There is not a man on earth who can tell the king’s matter; therefore no king, Lord, or ruler has ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or Chaldean. [Daniel 2:10 NKJV]
 

The Chaldeans [diviners] answered before the king and said, There is not a man on earth who can show the king this matter, for no king, Lord, or ruler has [ever] asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or Chaldean. [AMPC]

There is great folly of comparing and measuring what is required of you by how much others are doing. Behold and avoid such follies.
 

Unlearn what these Chaldeans were doing here, when they made two comparisons:
 

*1* One was comparing themselves being on the "Hot-Seats" of the King's Quiz by the capacity of every other human being on earth. This they raised to somehow justify or excuse themselves from that which was required of them to do but which they had no capacity, clue or making of effort to do or deliver on.
 

*2* Two was comparing the king that's demanding such revelation of them as unprecedented, unrealistic or impractical, in making demand that has no place between any king, ruler or Lord in the world and their senators, magicians, astrologers, enchanters, sorcerers, diviners or artists. Unprofitable Servants always have such views about the Lord or King, because they are lazy and thus feel their Lord is making hard or impossible demands from them. As it is written,
 

[Matthew 25:24‭-‬30 NKJV] — “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Look, there you have what is yours.’ “But his Lord answered and said to him, ‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed. So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I would have received back my own with interest. Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to him who has ten talents. ‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

Laziness has ways of making things seem impossible, hard or unreasonable or impractical demand to those who are lazy. To paraphrase again: — ***Those prophets of dark arts of Babylon began to justify their lazy inability as generalized impossibility in to all men on earth, and according to them it's humanly impossible to tell the king's matter. ***They also implied the king was unreasonable in making such request that no king, Lord or ruler, would conceive to demand from any practitioner of dark arts.
 

They engineered some form of "Reverse Psychology" to shift the poles, by introducing generalizations or comparisons to support their own points and undermine the king's perspective. I have encountered so many people like those, who generalize their undoing as impossibility in every man. For instance, I have met people who generalize that it's impossible to be or to remain a virgin up till forty years in this generation. Others generalize that it's impossible to live holy, faithful and righteous, for years without committing any sin at all, being very perfect as Jesus Christ is perfect. Those are the ones who the devil has succeeded in convincing/deceiving them into disbelieving such life is possible to lead among men. Some even go ahead to doubt God.
 

Those Chaldeans would later be proven to be wrong and false in their generalizations when Daniel came and did that which they said no man on earth can do. Considering they were supposedly 'wise men,' hear some sayings of "Wise men" of old:
 

"The man who says he can, and the man who says he cannot, are both correct."
 

"People are stressed by their inability to do it. The problem however, is that they don't do."
 

"Journey of a thousand miles begins with a step."
 

Now you have things of God required of you to do, you either do them and find completion, or you don't do them and find excuse. People who are comparing themselves by themselves among themselves also think they are wise as those Chaldeans thought they're wise. But they are not wise. As it is written,
 

[2 Corinthians 10:12] — "We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance."