2 Esdras 5:49-51

Common English Bible

⁴⁹ As an infant doesn’t give birth and a woman who has become old doesn’t give birth any longer, so I have set in order the world I created.”

⁵⁰ I asked: “Since you have given me opportunity, let me speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you spoke to me, still young? Or is she already approaching old age?”

⁵¹ He responded to me: “Ask one who gives birth, and she will tell you. Say to her,