37. open me the chambers that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, or show me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to you the travail that you asked to see.
38. And I said, O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that has not his dwelling with men?
39. As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?
40. Then said he to me, Like as you can do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so can you not find out my judgement, or the end of the love that I have promised to my people.
41. And I said, But, behold, O Lord, you have made the promise to them that be in the end: and what shall they do that have been before us, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
42. And he said to me, I will liken my judgement to a ring: like as there is no slackness of them that be last, even so there is no swiftness of them that be first.
43. So I answered and said, Couldest you not make them to be at once that have been made, and that be now, and that are for to come; that you might show your judgment the sooner?
44. Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the creator; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.