2 Esdras 5:49-51

Revised Standard Version

⁴⁹ For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so have I organized the world which I created.”

When and How Will the End Come?

⁵⁰ Then I inquired and said, “Since thou hast now given me the opportunity, let me speak before thee. Is our mother, of whom thou hast told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?”

⁵¹ He replied to me, “Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you.