2 Esdras 8:55-57

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵⁵ Therefore do not ask any more questions about the great number of those who perish. ⁵⁶ For when they had opportunity to choose, they despised the Most High, and were contemptuous of his law, and abandoned his ways. ⁵⁷ Moreover, they have even trampled on his righteous ones,