39. and for our sakes perhaps it is that the threshing time of the righteous is kept back, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
40. So he answered me, and said, Go your way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she has fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
41. Then said I, no, Lord, that can it not. And he said to me, in the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb:
42. for like as a woman that travails makes haste to escape the anguish of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them from the beginning.