9 For ask the earth, and she shall tell you, that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her.
10 For out of her all had their beginnings, and others shall come; and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and the multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
11 Who then should make more mourning, she, that has lost so great a multitude, or you, which are grieved but for one?
12 but if you say to me, My lamentation is not like the earth’s, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows:
13 but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:
14 then say I to you, Like as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
15 Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.