4 Maccabees 5:7-9

Revised Standard Version

⁷ for I respect your age and your gray hairs. Although you have had them for so long a time, it does not seem to me that you are a philosopher when you observe the religion of the Jews. ⁸ Why, when nature has granted it to us, should you abhor eating the very excellent meat of this animal? ⁹ It is senseless not to enjoy delicious things that are not shameful, and wrong to spurn the gifts of nature.