2 Esdras 4:9-11

Revised Standard Version

⁹ But now I have asked you only about fire and wind and the day, things through which you have passed and without which you cannot exist,^[a] and you have given me no answer about them!” ¹⁰ And he said to me, “You cannot understand the things with which you have grown up; ¹¹ how then can your mind comprehend the way of the Most High? And how can one who is already worn out^[b] by the corrupt world understand incorruption?”^[c] When I heard this, I fell on my face^[d]