2 Esdras 5:38-40

Common English Bible

³⁸ I said: “Supreme Lord, who can know these things except one who doesn’t live among human beings? ³⁹ But I’m ignorant. How can I speak of these things that you asked me about?”

⁴⁰ He said to me: “As you can’t do one of these things that were mentioned, so you can’t comprehend my judgment or the goal^[a] of the love I have promised to my people.”