2 Esdras 4:9-11

Common English Bible

⁹ But I’ve only asked you here about fire and wind and the day you have passed through, things you can’t exist without, and you haven’t answered me about them.”

¹⁰ He said to me: “You can’t even understand the things that are yours, which you have grown up with. ¹¹ How then can your mind^[a] contain the way of the Most High? How can a person who is already corrupted by the corrupt world understand the realm beyond corruption?”

I fell on my face