2 Esdras 7:68-70

Common English Bible

⁶⁸ All who are born are mixed up with violations, full of sins, and weighed down with crimes. ⁶⁹ If we were not to come into judgment after death, it would perhaps have been better for us.”

⁷⁰ He replied to me: “When the Most High made the world and Adam and all who are descended from him, he first prepared the judgment and the things that pertain to the judgment.