2 Esdras 7:64

64 But now the mind grows with us, and therefore we are tormented, because we perish and we know it.

2 Esdras 7:64 In-Context

62 I replied and said, “O earth, what have you brought forth, if the mind is made out of the dust like the other created things?

63 For it would have been better if the dust itself had not been born, so that the mind might not have been made from it.

64 But now the mind grows with us, and therefore we are tormented, because we perish and we know it.

65 Let the human race lament, but let the wild animals of the field be glad; let all who have been born lament, but let the cattle and the flocks rejoice.

66 It is much better with them than with us; for they do not look for a judgment, and they do not know of any torment or salvation promised to them after death.