2 Esdras 3:31–36

³¹and hast not shown to any one how thy way may be comprehended. Are the deeds of Babylon better than those of Zion? ³²Or has another nation known thee besides Israel? Or what tribes have so believed thy covenants as these tribes of Jacob? ³³Yet their reward has not appeared and their labor has borne no fruit. For I have traveled widely among the nations and have seen that they abound in wealth, though they are unmindful of thy commandments. ³⁴Now therefore weigh in a balance our iniquities and those of the inhabitants of the world; and so it will be found which way the turn of the scale will incline. ³⁵When have the inhabitants of the earth not sinned in thy sight? Or what nation has kept thy commandments so well? ³⁶Thou mayest indeed find individual men who have kept thy commandments, but nations thou wilt not find.”