2 Esdras 8:5

5 For not of your own will did you come into the world, and against your will you depart, for you have been given only a short time to live.

2 Esdras 8:5 In-Context

3 Many have been created, but only a few shall be saved."

4 I answered and said, "Then drink your fill of understanding, O my soul, and drink wisdom, O my heart.

5 For not of your own will did you come into the world, and against your will you depart, for you have been given only a short time to live.

6 O Lord above us, grant to your servant that we may pray before you, and give us a seed for our heart and cultivation of our understanding so that fruit may be produced, by which every mortal who bears the likeness of a human being may be able to live.

7 For you alone exist, and we are a work of your hands, as you have declared.

Footnotes

• [a] Syr: Meaning of Lat uncertain