2 Esdras 7:63-65

Common English Bible

⁶³ it would have been better that the dust itself had never been born, so that consciousness shouldn’t be made from it. ⁶⁴ But now consciousness grows with us, and due to this we are tortured, because we perish and are aware of the fact. ⁶⁵ Let the human race lament and let the wild beasts rejoice. Let all people who are born lament, but let four-footed animals and flocks be happy!