2 Esdras 4:46
King James VersionSource notes
“What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.”
Context
43From the beginning, look, what thou desirest to see, it shall be shewed thee.
44Then answered I and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore,
45Shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.
46What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.
47And he said unto me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
48So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.
49After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained still.