2 Esdras 4:19-21

Common English Bible

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? ²¹ As the land is given to the forest and the sea to the waves, so also only those who live on earth can understand the things that are on earth, and only those who live above the heavens can understand the things that are above the height of the heavens.”