2 Esdras 8:4

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

2 Esdras 8:4 In-Context

2 But I tell you a parable, Ezra. Just as, when you ask the earth, it will tell you that it provides very much clay from which earthenware is made, but only a little dust from which gold comes; so is the course of the present world.

3 Many have been created, but 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 who are over us, grant to thy servant that we may pray before thee, and give us 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.