2 Esdras 4:4-6

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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.”^(A)

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