2 Esdras 4:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴ If you can solve one of them for me, then I will show you the way you desire to see, and will teach you why the heart is evil.’

⁵ I said, ‘Speak, my lord.’

And he said to me, ‘Go, weigh for me the weight of fire, or measure for me a blast^[a] of wind, or call back for me the day that is past.’

⁶ I answered and said, ‘Who of those that have been born can do that, that you should ask me about such things?’