2 Esdras 4:51-52

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵¹ Then I prayed and said, ‘Do you think that I shall live until those days? Or who will be alive in those days?’

⁵² He answered me and said, ‘Concerning the signs about which you ask me, I can tell you in part; but I was not sent to tell you concerning your life, for I do not know.