2 Esdras 7:63-65

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⁶³ For it would have been better if the dust itself had not been born, so that the mind might not have been made from it.^{(A) 64} But now the mind grows with us, and therefore we are tormented, because we perish and we know it. ⁶⁵ Let the human race lament, but let the wild animals of the field be glad; let all who have been born lament, but let the cattle and the flocks rejoice.