4:11. “…thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

2 Esdras 6:55, 59: “All this I have spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou hast said that it was for us that thou didst create this world….If the world has indeed been created for us, why do we not possess our world as an inheritance?  How long will this be so?”

2 Esdras 7:11: “For I made the world for their sake, and when Adam transgressed my statutes, what had been made was judged.”