2 Esdras 10:33-35

Revised Standard Version

³³ He said to me, “Stand up like a man, and I will instruct you.”

³⁴ I said, “Speak, my lord; only do not forsake me, lest I die before my time.^{[a] 35} For I have seen what I did not know, and I have heard what I do not understand.