2 Esdras 4:18-20

Revised Standard Version

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 has made a foolish plan, for the land is assigned to the forest, and to the sea is assigned 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?