2 Esdras 10:31-33

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³¹ ‘What is the matter with you? And why are you troubled? And why are your understanding and the thoughts of your mind troubled?’

³² I said, ‘It was because you abandoned me. I did as you directed, and went out into the field, and lo, what I have seen, and can still see, I am unable to explain.’

³³ He said to me, ‘Stand up like a man, and I will instruct you.’