god's reply.

1 then god looked again at adam and his crying and groaning, and the word of god came to him, and said to him:—

2 "o adam, when you were in my garden, you knew neither eating nor drinking; neither faintness nor suffering; neither leanness of flesh, nor change; neither did sleep depart from thine eyes. but since you transgressed, and came into this strange land, all these trials are come over you."