42 I answered then and said, if I have found favor, let me speak before you.
43 Forasmuch as the husbandman’s seed, if it come not up, seeing that it has not received your rain in due season, or if it be corrupted through too much rain, so perishes;
44 likewise man, which is formed with your hands, and is called your own image, because he is made like to you, for whose sake you have formed all things, even him have you made like to the husbandman’s seed.
45 Be not angry with us, but spare your people, and have mercy upon your inheritance; for you have mercy upon your own creation.
46 Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for them that now be, and things to come for such as shall be hereafter.
47 For you come far short that you should be able to love my creature more than I. But you have brought yourself full near to the unrighteous. Let this never be.
48 Yet in this shall you be admirable to the Most High;