1 Sedrach said to him, “Your discipline? is punishment? and fire; and they are very bitter, my Lord.
2 It would be better for man if he were not born.
3 Indeed, what have you done, my Lord; for what reason did you labor with your spotless hands and create man, since you did not desire to have mercy upon him?”
4 God said to him, “I created the first man, Adam, and placed him in Paradise in the midst of (which is) the tree of life, and I said to him, ‘Eat of all the fruit, only beware of the tree of life, for if you eat from it you will surely die.’
5 However, he disobeyed my commandment and having been deceived by the devil he ate from the tree.”