If integrated into the book of Daniel: 13.52.

When they were separated from each other may be rendered “When the elders had taken the two men to different places.” Good News Translation omits this clause, presumably because it could be implied in the context.

He summoned one of them: Good News Translation “the first judge” (Contemporary English Version “the first one”) simply means the first judge that Daniel questioned. One of them works just as well.

You old relic of wicked days: This is such a wonderful expression in Revised Standard Version that one hesitates to say it may miss the point a bit. This dynamic equivalent phrase on the part of Revised Standard Version, which is usually fairly literal, is probably due to the fact that the Greek defies literal translation. It is something like “O one grown old of evil days.” The “evil days” probably refers to the days of the man’s wicked life, not to some wicked past generation, which is what the young Daniel seems to be saying in Revised Standard Version. New Jerusalem Bible “You have grown old in wickedness” is probably close to the sense. New English Bible is not bad with “You hardened sinner,” which could be improved by saying “You hardened old sinner.” Good News Translation “You wicked old man” is weak by comparison. “You are an evil old man” (Contemporary English Version) would be better.

Your sins have now come home, which you have committed in the past is literally “your sins have now come, which you have done in the past.” Moore has “the sins which you committed in the past have caught up with you.” Daniel is telling the man that his sins (which are obviously in the past), which he thought would never be found out, are now about to be punished. He is now being judged, which Good News Translation expresses with “now you will have to answer for all the sins you have committed.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Shorter Books of the Deuterocanon. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2006. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.