2 Esdras 4:4-6

Revised Standard Version

⁴ If you can solve one of them for me, I also will show you the way you desire to see, and will teach you why the heart is evil.”

⁵ I said, “Speak on, my lord.”

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

⁶ I answered and said, “Who of those that have been born can do this, that you ask me concerning these things?”