2 Esdras 4:14

14 and said, "Come, let us go and make war against the sea, so that it may recede before us and so that we may make for ourselves more forests.'

2 Esdras 4:14 In-Context

12 and said to him, "It would have been better for us not to be here than to come here and live in ungodliness, and to suffer and not understand why."

13 He answered me and said, "I went into a forest of trees of the plain, and they made a plan

14 and said, "Come, let us go and make war against the sea, so that it may recede before us and so that we may make for ourselves more forests.'

15 In like manner the waves of the sea also made a plan and said, "Come, let us go up and subdue the forest of the plain so that there also we may gain more territory for ourselves.'

16 But the plan of the forest was in vain, for the fire came and consumed it;