2 Esdras 4:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁸ If now you were a judge between them, which would you undertake to justify, and which to condemn?’

¹⁹ I answered and said, ‘Each made a foolish plan, for the land has been assigned to the forest, and the locale of the sea a place to carry its waves.’

²⁰ He answered me and said, ‘You have judged rightly, but why have you not judged so in your own case?