63. For it were better that the dust itself had been unborn, so that the mind might not have been made therefrom.
64. But now the mind grows with us, and by reason of this we are tormented, because we perish and know it.
65. Let the race of men lament and the beasts of the field be glad; let all that are born lament, but let the four-footed beasts and the cattle rejoice.
66. For it is far better with them than with us; for they look not for judgement, neither do they know of torments or of salvation promised to them after death.
67. For what does it profit us, that we shall be preserved alive, but yet be afflicted with torment?
68. For all that are born are defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:
69. and if after death we were not to come into judgement, perhaps it had been better for us.
70. And he answered me, and said, When the Most High made the world, and Adam and all them that came of him, he first prepared the Judgement and the things that pertain to the judgement.