2 Esdras 4:18-20

Common English Bible

¹⁸ If then you were judge of these, which would you begin to justify and which to condemn?”

¹⁹ I answered, “Each made a stupid plan, for land is given to the forest, and the sea is the appointed place for its waves.”

²⁰ Uriel answered me: “You have judged well. So why haven’t you judged well in your own case?