2 Esdras 7:62-64

Common English Bible

⁶² I replied: “Earth, what have you brought to birth? If consciousness is made of dust like other creatures, ⁶³ it would have been better that the dust itself had never been born, so that consciousness shouldn’t be made from it. ⁶⁴ But now consciousness grows with us, and due to this we are tortured, because we perish and are aware of the fact.