2 Esdras 4:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ Then I said, ‘Yes, my lord.’ And he replied to me, ‘I have been sent to show you three ways, and to put before you three problems. ⁴ If you can solve one of them for me, then I will show you the way you desire to see, and will teach you why the heart is evil.’

⁵ I said, ‘Speak, my lord.’

And he said to me, ‘Go, weigh for me the weight of fire, or measure for me a blast^[a] of wind, or call back for me the day that is past.’