2 Esdras 5:50

50 Then I inquired and said, "Since thou hast now given me the opportunity, let me speak before thee. Is our mother, of whom thou hast told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?"

2 Esdras 5:50 In-Context

48 He said to me, "Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those who from time to time are sown in it.

49 For as an infant does not bring forth, and a woman who has become old does not bring forth any longer, so have I organized the world which I created."

50 Then I inquired and said, "Since thou hast now given me the opportunity, let me speak before thee. Is our mother, of whom thou hast told me, still young? Or is she now approaching old age?"

51 He replied to me, "Ask a woman who bears children, and she will tell you.

52 Say to her, "Why are those whom you have borne recently not like those whom you bore before, but smaller in stature?'