⁵⁴ And he said to me, “Not only that, but ask the earth, and she will tell you; defer to her, and she will declare it to you.^(A)

² But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides a large amount of clay from which earthenware is made but only a little dust from which gold comes, so is the course of the present world.^(A)