2 Esdras 5:46

46 He answered, "That would be like asking a woman who has given birth to ten children why she didn't have them all at once, instead of one at a time."

2 Esdras 5:46 In-Context

44 He answered, "The creation cannot move faster than the Creator. And besides, the world wouldn't have been able to hold all the people if everyone had been created at the same time."

45 "Why, then," I asked, "did you just now tell me that one day you would bring back to life at the same time every creature that ever lived? If the world can hold them all then, it can hold them now."

46 He answered, "That would be like asking a woman who has given birth to ten children why she didn't have them all at once, instead of one at a time."

47 "That would be impossible," I answered. "She can't have them all at once."

48 "In the same way," he continued, "I have made the world like a womb so that it produces human beings at regular intervals.