2 Esdras 5:39-41

Revised Standard Version

³⁹ As for me, I am without wisdom, and how can I speak concerning the things which thou hast asked me?”

⁴⁰ He said to me, “Just as you cannot do one of the things that were mentioned, so you cannot discover my judgment, or the goal of the love that I have promised my people.”

Why Successive Generations Have Been Created

⁴¹ And I said, “Yet behold, O Lord, thou dost have charge of those who are alive at the end, but what will those do who were before us, or we, or those who come after us?”