2 Esdras 7:68-70

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶⁸ For all who have been born are entangled in^[a] iniquities, and are full of sins and burdened with transgressions. ⁶⁹ And if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it would have been better for us.’

⁷⁰ He answered me and said, ‘When the Most High made the world and Adam and all who have come from him, he first prepared the judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.