9. Nevertheless now have I asked you but only of the fire and wind, and of the day, things wherethrough you have passed, and without which you can not be, and yet have you given me no answer of them.
10. He said moreover to me, Your own things, that are grown up with you, can you not know;
11. how then can your vessel comprehend the way of the Most High? and how can he that is already worn out with the corrupted world understand incorruption?
12. And when I heard these things I fell upon my face, and said to him, It were better that we were not here at all, than that we should come here and live in the midst of ungodliness, and suffer, and not know wherefore.