2 Esdras 7:65

65 Let the human race lament and let the wild beasts rejoice. Let all people who are born lament, but let four-footed animals and flocks be happy!

2 Esdras 7:65 In-Context

63 it would have been better that the dust itself had never been born, so that consciousness shouldn't be made from it.

64 But now consciousness grows with us, and due to this we are tortured, because we perish and are aware of the fact.

65 Let the human race lament and let the wild beasts rejoice. Let all people who are born lament, but let four-footed animals and flocks be happy!

66 It is much better for them than for us. They don't expect judgment. They don't know about either the torments or the deliverance that you promise after death.

67 But what does it profit us that we will be preserved, only to be tortured with torments?