9. But all I have asked you about is fire, wind, and the day that has just passed — things that you have experienced. Yet you have given me no answer.
10. You can't even understand things that you have been familiar with since you were a child.
11. How then can your little mind understand the ways of God Most High? Can one already worn down by this corrupt world understand the ways of the incorruptible God?”When I heard this, I fell face downwards on the ground
12. and said to him, “It would have been better if we had never been born than to have to live in a world of sin and suffering without understanding why things happen as they do.”
13. The angel Uriel answered, “I once went into the woods and heard the trees plotting together.
14. They were saying, ‘Let's go to war against the sea and push it back, so that we may have more room.’
15. But the waves of the sea also plotted together and said, ‘Let's conquer the woods and extend our territory.’
16. But all the plotting of the trees was useless because fire came and destroyed them.
17. And the plotting of the sea was just as useless because the sand stood firm and blocked its advance.
18. Now, if you were the judge and had to decide between them, which would you pronounce right?”
19. I replied, “They were both wrong, because trees belong to the land, and waves belong in the sea.”
20. “You have given the right answer,” he said. “So why can't you see the answer to you own problems?