2 Esdras 4:24

24 and why we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a mist, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.

2 Esdras 4:24 In-Context

22 Then I answered and said, "I beseech you, my lord, why have I been endowed with the power of understanding?
23 For I did not wish to inquire about the ways above, but about those things which we daily experience: why Israel has been given over to the Gentiles as a reproach; why the people whom you loved has been given over to godless tribes, and the law of our fathers has been made of no effect and the written covenants no longer exist;
24 and why we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a mist, and we are not worthy to obtain mercy.
25 But what will he do for his name, by which we are called? It is about these things that I have asked."
26 He answered me and said, "If you are alive, you will see, and if you live long, you will often marvel, because the age is hastening swiftly to its end.
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