2 Esdras 4:38-40

Common English Bible

³⁸ I answered: “Supreme Lord, we all are also full of impiety. ³⁹ Is it perhaps because of us, and because of the sins of those who live on earth, that the harvest of the just is delayed?”

⁴⁰ He answered me, “Go ask a pregnant woman whether her womb can keep the baby inside her when she has completed her nine months.”