2 Esdras 4:9-13 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

9. But all I have asked you about is fire, wind, and the day that has just passed — things that you have experienced. Yet you have given me no answer.

10. You can't even understand things that you have been familiar with since you were a child.

11. How then can your little mind understand the ways of God Most High? Can one already worn down by this corrupt world understand the ways of the incorruptible God?”When I heard this, I fell face downwards on the ground

12. and said to him, “It would have been better if we had never been born than to have to live in a world of sin and suffering without understanding why things happen as they do.”

13. The angel Uriel answered, “I once went into the woods and heard the trees plotting together.

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