2 Esdras 6:53-55

Revised Standard Version

⁵³ “On the sixth day thou didst command the earth to bring forth before thee cattle, beasts, and creeping things; ⁵⁴ and over these thou didst place Adam, as ruler over all the works which thou hadst made; and from him we have all come, the people whom thou hast chosen.

Why Do God’s People Suffer?

⁵⁵ “All this I have spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou hast said that it was for us that thou didst create this world.^[a]