2 Esdras 14:43
King James VersionSource notes
“As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.”
Context
40And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my memory:
41And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
42The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
43As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
44In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
45And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
46But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people: