dn27:15.1 Then those beings started to eat the bursting pods.
dn27:15.2 With that as their food and nourishment, they remained for a very long time.
dn27:15.3 But so long as they ate those bursting pods, their bodies became more solid and they diverged in appearance;
dn27:15.4 some beautiful, some ugly.
dn27:15.5 And the beautiful beings looked down on the ugly ones:
dn27:15.6 ‘We’re more beautiful, they’re the ugly ones!’
dn27:15.7 And the vanity of the beautiful ones made the bursting pods vanish.
dn27:15.8 They gathered together and bemoaned,
dn27:15.9 ‘Oh, what we’ve lost! Oh, what we’ve lost—those bursting pods!’
dn27:15.10 And even today when people experience suffering they say:
dn27:15.11 ‘Oh, what we’ve lost! Oh, what we’ve lost!’
dn27:15.12 They’re just remembering an ancient primordial saying, but they don’t understand what it means.


