2 Esdras 6:54-56

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁵⁴ and over these you placed Adam, as ruler over all the works that you had made, and from him we have all come, the people whom you have chosen.^(A)

Why Do God’s People Suffer?

⁵⁵ “All this I have spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that it was for us that you created this world.^{[a](B) 56} As for the other nations that have descended from Adam, you have said that they are nothing and that they are like spittle, and you have compared their abundance to a drop from a bucket.^(C)