2 Esdras 7:60-62

Common English Bible

⁶⁰ So also will be the judgment^[a] I have promised. I will rejoice over the few who will be saved, because they are the ones who made my honor to prevail now and through whom my reputation is celebrated. ⁶¹ I will have no regrets over the multitude who perish, for they are even now like vapor, the equivalent of flame or smoke; they burn and flare up and are quenched.”

⁶² I replied: “Earth, what have you brought to birth? If consciousness is made of dust like other creatures,