2 Esdras 5:50

50 I asked: "Since you have given me opportunity, let me speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you spoke to me, still young? Or is she already approaching old age?"

2 Esdras 5:50 In-Context

48 He said to me: "I also have given the earth's womb for those who have been sown on it over time.

49 As an infant doesn't give birth and a woman who has become old doesn't give birth any longer, so I have set in order the world I created."

50 I asked: "Since you have given me opportunity, let me speak before you. Is our mother, of whom you spoke to me, still young? Or is she already approaching old age?"

51 He responded to me: "Ask one who gives birth, and she will tell you. Say to her,

52 ‘Why are those you have borne now not like those whom you bore before, but are smaller in stature?'