2 Esdras 8:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ You will cause him to die as your creation and give him life as your work.

¹⁴ If, therefore, you will destroy with a simple command one who was fashioned at your command with so much labor, why was he made? ¹⁵ Now I will surely speak: You know best about the sum total of humanity, but what about your people who grieve me,