31. Ponder now by yourself, how great fruit of wickedness a grain of evil seed has brought forth.
32. When the ears which are without number shall be sown, how great a floor shall they fill!
33. Then I answered and said, How long? and when shall these things come to pass? wherefore are our years few and evil?
34. And he answered me, and said, You do not hasten more than the Most High: for your haste is for your own self, but he that is above hastens on behalf of many.
35. Did not the souls of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long are we here? when comes the fruit of the threshing time of our reward?
36. And to them Jeremiel the archangel gave answer, and said, Even when the number is fulfilled of them that are like to you. For he has weighed the world in the balance;