2 Esdras 6:53-55

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵³ ‘On the sixth day you commanded the earth to bring forth before you cattle, wild animals, and creeping things; ⁵⁴ and over these you placed Adam, as ruler over all the works that you had made; and from him we have all come, the people whom you have chosen.

Why Do God’s People Suffer?

⁵⁵ ‘All this I have spoken before you, O Lord, because you have said that it was for us that you created this world.^[a]